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 ...

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 ...

The best of the Palace Museum's vast collection of lacquerwares made during the Qing Dynasty (1466-1911) Qianlong period are on display in a new exhibition at the Guardian Art Center in Beijing to ...

Experts are exploring and restoring the Forbidden City's best-preserved, yet least-understood, structure - Emperor Qianlong's long-sealed retirement lodge. Zhang Zixuan reports in Beijing. Juanqinzhai ...

A Qianlong-dynasty scroll painting sold today in Toulouse, south-west France, for a record 22.1 million euros ($31 million), the latest in a series of big-ticket auction prices pledged by Asian ...

Qianlong has been billed as a lady killer, but when he headed to his favorite retreat he had very serious regal duties on his mind. When Emperor Qianlong arrived in Hangzhou for the first time in 1751 ...

The 10-inch high, Qianlong dynasty porcelain pieces were given to the anonymous couple from Southampton as a wedding present in 1965. They were sold to a foreign bidder on the telephone and were ...