In north China, the Manchu and Han banquet included a hot pot or instant – boiled mutton, while in northeast China it included stewed beef or mutton or roast sheep. In Sichuan, the banquet ...

the Manchu Conquest of China, and the Chinese Civil War. Simply put, China is a large country with a massive population, which is partially why the Taiping Rebellion was so bloody. The conflict ...

It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew ... His armies completed the conquest of central China. He also captured Outer Mongolia, Taiwan and took control of Tibet.

It would have been worn by an important Manchu woman. The Manchu people originally came from a part of North-East China called Manchuria, but they have since migrated throughout China and settled ...

Zhang Dai (1597–1689), subject of this absorbing and evocative literary-biographical study, was a Chinese essayist and historian whose long life bridged the conquest of China by the Manchus and ...