This article examines debates about monetary standards in the final years of the Qing dynasty. As silver depreciated on the world market, Qing statesmen discussed whether to adopt the gold-exchange ...

Construction workers unearth lots of ancient coins at a construction site in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei procince July 11, 2006. The unearthed coins were used in Qing Dynasty and buried ...

Social Science History, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 281-304 (24 pages) Peter C. Perdue's China Marches West argues that the Qing dynasty's ability to break through historical territorial ...

The Qing Dynasty in China, after over 250 years, crumbled in 1912. Led by the Complexity Science Hub (CSH), an international research team has pinpointed key reasons behind the collapse, revealing ...

The Qing Dynasty in China, after over 250 years, crumbled in 1912. An international research team has pinpointed key reasons behind the collapse, revealing parallels to modern instability and offering ...

How did 19th century Americans think about their contact with Qing China? And how is that still important for U.S. policy towards China today? Johnson’s research focuses primarily on print sources, ...

The Qing Dynasty in China, after over 250 years, crumbled in 1912. Led by the Complexity Science Hub (CSH), an international research team has pinpointed key reasons behind the collapse, revealing ...

Evie Liu at CNN gives a brief sketch of a small village in northeastern China where falconry is still a common practice among local men: In China’s Jilin province, the tiny rural community of Ying Tun ...

A pair of Qing dynasty jars exceeded their $63,000 estimate at London auction house Roseberys, selling for $74,318—or nearly 3,000 times the $25 that the seller paid for them at a charity shop. “These ...