Imperial food comprised the dietetic culture of the Chinese palaces and it is part of China’s valuable cultural heritage. Imperial foods often were improved dishes invented by the common people.

Within these extensive rubrics, this edited collection further interrogates the nature of Asian polities and their historiography, the constitution of Chineseness, imperial China's southern expansions ...

Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'.

It was one of China's most popular shows of 2018 - but it's now being pulled from TV screens across the country. The story of Yanxi Palace, a drama about life in imperial China, broke records when ...

The decline and collapse of imperial China in the 1800s and early 1900s, however, diminished Chinese influence on the global stage for more than a century. In the past two decades, China has ...

China’s Communist Party often speaks proudly about what it claims to be 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. But its leaders are still struggling to decide what they should say about the past ...

The raw materials from Northeast China that were used for the imperial meals far surpassed those from other provinces in the number of tributes, quantity, and expense. It was cold in Northeast ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...