[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] When Emperor Qianlong (1711-99 ... Items ranging from royal seals and ritual artifacts to carvings and miscellaneous articles of daily use demonstrate the ...

In 2014, Hong Kong added Chinese seal engraving to its Intangible ... Yam says this stone, which in the past was often used for emperors' seals, contains fewer impurities and has a more consistent ...

as evident in the diplomatic document titled “Pros & Cons of the Emperor’s Visit to China at the Present Stage.” The document was dated July 29, 1991, stamped with a seal for “secret ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...