A vase kept in a kitchen in England could sell for £150,000 ($186,000) after it was revealed to be a rare 18th century Chinese artifact which was created for the Qianlong Emperor. The vase was ...

When Ho Puay-peng first visited Beijing’s Forbidden City in the late 1980s, the Singaporean architect saw many of the historic courtyards used for storage, filled with garbage, and occupied by danwei ...

The hand scroll by Emperor Qianlong was sold at Poly's Autumn Auction, Dec 2, 2014. [Photo/Artron.net] A set of hand scrolls, White Dagoba Hill, written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty sold ...

However, no one could take the place of Emperor Kangxi, the grandfather who, after seeing Qianlong for the first time, decided to take the boy away and put him under his tutelage, a tutelage widely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nestled in the Forbidden City in Beijing lies a hidden gem that has long been off-limits to the public, until now. The Qianlong ...

Oxford professor Henrietta Harrison's new research shows that the famous letter from China's Qianlong emperor to Britain's King George III in 1793 was a diplomatic manoeuvre rather than a reflection ...

Inside Qianlong Garden: In 2020, Beijing's Forbidden City will open up the Qianlong Garden for the first time. Pictured here: the restored Juanqinzhai (Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service).

After years of painstaking restoration, a new section of Beijing's Forbidden City will be opened to the public for the first time in 2020. The Qianlong Garden, in the northeast section of the ...

The Osenat auction house employee responsible for pricing a blue-and-white dragon vase at $1,900, and then watching it sell for $7.5 million—more than 4,000 times the original estimate—has been fired ...

Qianlong Emperor, born in 1711, was the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty, ruling from 1735 to 1796. He was the fourth son of Emperor Yongzheng and is remembered as one of the most prosperous and ...

A pair of Qianlong-era vases discovered on a mantelpiece during a routine antiques valuation have been sold for almost £15MILLION. Jeremy Morgan was in the drawing room of an English country home when ...