The Boxer Rebellion was the fourth and largest war, Imperial China fought against Western powers in the nineteenth century. Oddly enough, in its early stages, the Boxer movement was pitted against ...
The exhibition also displays the tiny cheat notes secretly brought into the imperial examination sites, for example, ...
Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to most of imperial China's people, who could only imagine the grandeur beyond the gates. Hall of ...
In imperial China, as in China today, these institutions would have been informed by two basic premises: first, the people's tax dollars should be spent for the people's benefit. A slogan to that ...