Throwback Thursday: when I was living in London, I took a free short course at the British Museum which drew me into the wonderful world of Chinese #porcelain; this is an 18th c. #Qing dynasty vase emblazoned with a #dragon that I saw at the Met 13 years ago this week (3.1.13)
Finishing a commission. #mangaormolu #ceramics #art #visualart #sculpture #studio #clay #vancouver #wheelthrown #wrinkles #canadianartist #ming #blueandwhite #pottery #contemporaryart #manga #qing #yuan #wip #canadianceramics
Historians generally exclude the 1931 #InvasionOfChina from the sequence of #WWII events, and should not. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1932, the #EmpireOfJapan created a puppet kingdom of #Manchukuo/#Manzhouguo in #Manchuria, nominally ruled by the deposed former #Qing emperor #Puyi.
#DOTD in #ChineseHistory: Kong Shangren #孔尚任 (1648–1718), #Qing #清 (1644–1911) playwright, author of The Peach Blossom Fan #桃花扇, which is set during the fall of the #Ming #明 (1368–1644) and has been called '#China's greatest #historicaldrama'. #LateImperialChina #theatre
#OTD #TDIH #February13: #TibetanIndependenceDay: The #February13,1913 #FivePointProclamation ( #DeclarationOfTibetanIndependence, #TibetanIndependenceDay ) is initiated by #13thDalaiLama #ThubtenGyatso from the #Qing dynasty, bringing some 4 decades of independence. #Tibet #TibetanSky
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Tan Sitong #譚嗣同 (1865–1898), late #Qing #清 (1644–1911) reformer and philosopher, one of the 'Six Gentlemen' #戊戌六君子 executed for their role in the #HundredDaysReform #戊戌變法. Known for his Study of Humaneness #仁學, a critique of #Confucianism.
Good to see Pamela Crossley on the #Qing makes the cut
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The Hall of Mental Cultivation at Beijing's Palace Museum has reopened to the public. Once the living and governing space of #Qing Dynasty emperors, the hall now offers visitors a first-person look at its renewed interior space.
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#OnThisDay in 1722, the #Kangxi emperor died after the longest reign in Chinese #history; he made Taiwan part of #China & is widely considered the greatest of the #Qing; this is a video about the emperor & his reign:
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#OnThisDay in 1722, the #Kangxi emperor died after the longest reign in Chinese #history; he made Taiwan part of #China & is widely considered the greatest of the #Qing; this is Laszlo Montgomery's podcast about the emperor:
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Felicity Somers Eve, the great-granddaughter of Scottish engineer David Marr Henderson, who oversaw #lighthouse construction in in the late #Qing Dynasty, recently visited the 1883 Eluanbi Lighthouse in #Taiwan.
#台灣 #燈塔
Sun Deming was born in Guandong #OnThisDay in 1866; the first leader of the #Guomindang, #SunYatSen helped inspire the revolution that overthrew the tottering #Qing dynasty & established the Republic of #China in 1911, a key turning point in its history...
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#Lyingflat in #Qing #China
Six Records of a Floating Life
#ShenFu, #translated by Alex Fang
#Books #Traanslation #Review
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1875, revolutionary #QiuJin was born in #China. She had #BoundFeet and an #ArrangedMarriage, but fled both -- unbound her feet, adopted men's clothing, and studied politics and #feminism. She was executed in 1907 for a rebellion against the #Qing dynasty.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1644, the #ShunzhiEmperor was crowned in #Beijing as Emperor of #China. The second emperor of the #Qing dynasty, he was the first to gain power in China proper after the collapse of the #Ming dynasty. The #Manchu Qing were China's last imperial house.
British troops burned down the #YuánmíngYuán #圆明园 #圓明園 #OnThisDay in 1860; the looting of the Old Summer Palace — the Versailles of the East — was a disaster for #China's cultural heritage & a humiliation for the tottering #Qing dynasty...
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Aisin Gioro Hongli 愛新覺羅 弘曆 was born #OnThisDay in 1711, taking the reign name #Qianlong & ruling #China from 1735 to 1796; along with his grandfather, he had the longest & most successful reign of the #Qing dynasty; this is a #dragon in his garden:
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Aisin Gioro Hongli 愛新覺羅 弘曆 was born #OnThisDay in 1711, taking the reign name #Qianlong & ruling #China from 1735 to 1796; along with his grandfather, he had the longest & most successful reign of the #Qing dynasty; this is a #dragon in his garden:
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"Dominating the Qing empire’s concern was the north and west where the Junghars were gathering power. This...drove the war economy and resulted in #Qing westward expansion and ultimately the addition of #Mongolia, #Xinjiang, and #Tibet to the former Ming lands" strategicspace.nbr.org/the-qing-con...
