The Qianlong Emperor（1711-1799）was the sixth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty and reigned officially from 11 October. 1735 to 8...
Beijing
The fall of Heshen，the rise of Jiaqing.How corrupted can a man be that his treasure even threatens the emperor？ Niohuru...
Bid Beijing was elected as the host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics on July 13，2001 during the 112th IOC...
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games，officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad，was a major international multi-sport event that took...
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference，also known as the People's PCC or just"The PCC”，is a political advisorybody in the People's...
At 3 pm on October 1，the PRC founding ceremony began. After Mao Zedong read the declaration from the Central People's...
On October 1st 1949，Chairman Mao declared in front of the Tian'anmen:“The People's Republic of China is established”.This scene shall be...
The design of the 2008 Olympic Torch was based on traditional scrolls and used a traditional Chinese design known as...
The Imperial Gardens at the Old Summer Palace were made up of three gardens:The Garden of Perfect Brightness proper，the Garden...
In 1860，British and French expeditionary forces，having marchedinland from the coast，reached Peking（Beijing）.On September 29，two envoys，Henry Loch and Harry Parkes went ahead...
Introduction The Old Summer Palace，known in Chinese as Yuan Ming Yuan（the Gardens of Perfect Brightness）and originally called the ImperialGardens，was a...
Kublai Khan（1215-1294），known as Shizu of the Yuan dynasty，was the founder of the Yuan Dynasty，a division of the Mongol Empire，reigning from...
Genghis Khan（1162-1227），born Temujin，was the founder and Great Khan（emperor）of the Mongol Empire，which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his...
Hutongs represent an important cultural element of the city of Beijing.Thanks to Beijing's long history and status as capital for...
At the turn of the 20th century，the Qing court was disintegrating as China's dynastic era came to an end.The traditional...
Hutong and siheyuan are the intergral parts of Beijing.Hutong provides a place for people to rehabilitate and breed future generations....
Beijing,also known as Peking,is a metropolis in Northern China,and the capital of the People's Republic of China.Governed as a municipality...
On May 3，1644 the Manchus seized Beijing in the name of freeing the city from the bandit Li Zicheng.Dorgon held...
In 1368，Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing and his general Xu Da captured Dadu.The last Yuan court fled...
When Kublai Khan，the grandson of Genghis Khan，visited Yanjing in 1261，much of old Zhongdu，including the imperial palace，lay in ruin.He stayed in...