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• 1794
  *A Dutch embassy enjoys an audience with the [[Qianlong Emperor]].
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• 1793
  ...hina: [[George Lord Macartney]] is granted an audience with the [[Qianlong Emperor]].
  2 KB (220 words) - 17:40, 25 February 2017
• Chinese gardens
  ...he expansion of the [[Yuanmingyuan]] (Old Summer Palace) by the [[Qianlong Emperor]] in [[1736]]-[[1753]] marking the more complete reorganization of the Impe
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• Forbidden City
  Much of the palace was rebuilt during the reign of the [[Yongle Emperor]] (r. [[1402]]-[[1424]]) in the early [[Ming Dynasty]], when the capital w ...compound includes the [[Qianlong Gardens]], constructed by the [[Qianlong Emperor]] (r. [[1735]]-[[1796]]) and designed in part by the [[Society of Jesus|Jes
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• 1791
  ...o [[Beijing]] to express formal birthday congratulations to the [[Qianlong Emperor]].
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• Society of Jesus in China
  ...met with the [[Qianlong Emperor]] in [[1793]], he was dismayed to find the emperor utterly unimpressed with the clocks and astronomical devices he had brought ...e who agreed with Kangxi's stipulations would be excommunicated, while the emperor ordered that anyone who did not, would be expelled from the country. Most o
  5 KB (680 words) - 00:34, 24 February 2015
• Quan Kui
  ...ere excessively forceful about trying to unload their goods for trade, the Emperor reversed his decision once again, ordering that the funds be returned to Ry
  4 KB (575 words) - 12:55, 31 March 2018
• 1790
  *The [[Qianlong Emperor]] invites troupes to perform for his 80th birthday. Ambassadors from numero
  3 KB (357 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2019
• Zhou Huang
  ...ere excessively forceful about trying to unload their goods for trade, the Emperor reversed his decision once again, ordering that the funds be returned to Ry
  4 KB (661 words) - 03:23, 29 September 2017
• Li Dingyuan
  ...mission came only shortly after the death of the long-reigning [[Qianlong Emperor]], a variety of changes were made to the ritual protocols, in observance of
  3 KB (439 words) - 03:02, 29 September 2017
• Beijing
  ...e, for the most part, was arranged along a north-south axis, such that the emperor sat in [[North Star|the north]] and faced south. The Hall of Supreme Harmon ...adu]] (大都, "great metropolis"). The Mongol city fell to the rebel [[Hongwu Emperor|Zhu Yuanzhang]] in [[1368]], who then established the Ming Dynasty, naming
  9 KB (1,503 words) - 00:13, 12 April 2020
• Burma
  ...however, Chinese military efforts against Burma, e.g. under the [[Qianlong Emperor]] in the late 18th century, were never successful. ...he idealized deferential behavior: Burmese letters referred to the Chinese emperor as "elder brother" rather than as "all-father," and Chinese envoys to Burma
  6 KB (898 words) - 12:48, 31 March 2018
• Kangxi Emperor
  The Kangxi Emperor was the fourth emperor of China's [[Qing Dynasty]], and the second to rule over [[China proper]] ( The Kangxi Emperor was a son of the [[Shunzhi Emperor]] by a consort later known as [[Empress Xiaokang]], who was originally from
  9 KB (1,339 words) - 13:29, 11 May 2015
• 1860
  ...asures, and also retaking cannon and other objects given to the [[Qianlong Emperor]] as gifts from King George III in [[1793]].
  4 KB (654 words) - 04:15, 5 September 2020
• Qing Dynasty
  ...hus, labeling themselves not as conquerors but as avengers of the Chonzhen Emperor, invited into China by a rightful representative of the Ming (Wu Sangui), d ...ge), keeping this selection sealed within an imperial vault. Only upon the Emperor's death was the vault opened, and the document naming the heir revealed.<re
  39 KB (5,974 words) - 15:43, 25 April 2018
• Chinese Imperial examinations
  ...nd edicts or declarations to the exam, such as the [[Hongwu Emperor|Hongwu Emperor's]] addition to the exam of questions testing the candidates' knowledge of ...level (殿試, ''diànshì''), before finally being selected or rejected by the emperor. In the [[Tang Dynasty]], exams were only offered at the metropolitan & pal
  25 KB (3,871 words) - 12:19, 26 September 2017
• Chinese investiture envoys
  ...eavenly envoys," i.e. ambassadors from the Son of Heaven, i.e. the Chinese Emperor.</ref> ...firming his position as a [[tribute|tributary]] subordinate to the Chinese Emperor within the Sinocentric system of diplomatic relations.
  39 KB (6,086 words) - 07:46, 3 May 2020

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