Blog Tag - Stories of the 'Jing

Residence of Sengge Rinchen
Why is he important?Two words: Mongolian Prince. Two more words: Dynastic Hero. Sengge Rinchen fought against the British and French during the...
The Little Canal that Could: The Story behind Beijing's Liangma River
The Liangma River is one of the city’s best-loved (and now best-known) reclamation projects. The banks of the river are popular with joggers,...
The Qianlong Emperor, born in the Year of the Rabbit 1711
It’s Spring Festival, even though the thermometer reads -10 outside the window. It’s also the year of the Rabbit in China, which has historically...
Eunuchs in Beijing: The Bad and the Misunderstood
Imperial eunuchs have a lousy reputation in Chinese history and pop culture. Part of the problem is archival. We have very few sources produced by...