Cribwork Song is a long narrative folk song,which spread in the folk of Kangxian County,Longnan City,Gansu Province of China.This paper has analyzed historical background,humanistic environment,story plot,artistic cha...
Two sets of assumptions surrounding the Manchus and footbinding have crept into the historiography of the Qing period. A first set of assumptions claims that the Manchus attempted to ban footbinding among civilian Han...
At the turn of the 18th century, the Kangxi emperor initiated a large project to map the vast territories of the Qing. The land surveys that ensued were executed by teams of Qing officials and European missionaries, m...
Porcelain bottles made in the period of the Kangxi Emperor are known for their plain and heavy style and fine bases. With the influence of the style of late Ming-Dynasty porcelain, the porcelain of the early period of...
In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the government-decreed exchange rate for the silver tael was always influenced by the price of marketable copper, which was in turn determined in toto by the annual amount of co...