Sentences with phrase «qing dynasty»

This study will examine rules and punishments laid out against sorcery crimes in traditional China from the pre-Qin (221 - 206 BC) period through to the Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), followed by a case study of relevant judicial practice.

Second, during the Cultural Revolution, there was a play extolling the virtues of «Good Minister Liou» who was the only Qing Dynasty official to care about the people.

Records of thaw and freeze dates for lake and river ice start with Lake Suwa in Japan in 1444, and extensive records of snowfall in China were made during the Qing Dynasty (1644 — 1912).

Indeed, the historical record of the Qing Dynasty details maritime disasters at least 9 times.

During a La Niña - like stage, multiple maritime disasters occurred in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1636 — 1912).

This phenomenon in seasonal variation is reflected in the maritime disaster events recorded for coastal regions of southeastern China and landfall locations of tropical cyclones during the Qing Dynasty.

Photo Credit: Shitao's Reminiscences of Qinhuai, Qing dynasty, ink and colors on paper, collection of the Cleveland Museum, via Vassar College Slide Library, Wikimedia Commons, PD - art.

In his first major public sculpture project, Ai Weiwei reinterpreted twelve zodiac animal heads designed in the 18th century by two European Jesuits in the court of the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong.

Many of Mr. Crow's jade pieces will be displayed during Wild Flowering, in a special exhibition called Blossoming Stone: Qing Dynasty Jade, which is being curated by Mr. Yuan.

Each component is comprised of a replica of a Qing Dynasty - style vessel, perched atop sleek brass and marble stands.

Qing Dynasty Art (1644 - 1911) Famous for landscape painting, Buddhist temples of the Tibetan school, porcelain decorated with fencai enamel, and more.

At least two of his works will be included: his «Ton of Tea» sculpture, in which tea leaves are pressed to form a cube, and «Fairytale Chairs,» a group of 20 wooden Qing dynasty chairs.

In fact, it makes a particularly apt venue to see his comment on cultural colonialism, a circle of giant bronze animal heads inspired by those created for a Qing dynasty emperor's palace in the 1700s and later looted by British troops.

The book, written by Pu Songlin, was a Qing dynasty classic and is well - known in China.

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Goddess Bodhiruma, ca. 1740, Chinese, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period.

The works include rarely seen Ming and Qing Dynasty porcelains from the Frick Collection, first millennium stone sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection at Columbia University, and contemporary ink of paper by contemporary Beijing artist Liu Dan.

Chinese, Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1912), Triple Gourd Vase (one of pair), 1662 - 1722.

The celebrated theatre director and artist Robert Wilson has created an exhibition on the Qing dynasty, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, which immerses visitors in a series of evocative spaces.

Entering the gallery the viewer is almost walking into Map of China, a large sculpture made out of Iron wood (Tieli wood) that Ai Weiwei has collected from dismantled temples of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911).

The show includes a large group of Ming and Qing Dynasty porcelains from the Frick Collection and; large - scale classical stone sculpture from the Sackler Collection.

In many of Mr. Ai's best sculptures, repeated forms are freighted with historical or political overtones and yet remain ice - cold — whether in «Template» (2007), his collapsed assemblage of 1,001 Ming and Qing Dynasty doors, or «Straight» (2008 — 2012), his harrowing arrangement of steel rods recovered from buildings destroyed in the Sichuan earthquake.

The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant - garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan.

The upcoming exhibition will feature large prints made from Thomson's original negatives, displayed alongside Qing dynasty garments, textiles and accessories that mirror those featured in the portraits.

Explore the visual culture of Chinese opera during the Qing dynasty in the concurrent exhibition Performing Images.

A series of six Qing dynasty - style ceramics depicting British diplomat Sir Harry Smith Parkes are on display.

Among them were exhibitions of the works of Ant Farm, Joe Brainard, Joan Brown, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Robert Colescott, Jay DeFeo, Juan Gris, Eva Hesse, Paul Kos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barry McGee, Richard Misrach, Bruce Nauman, Peter Paul Rubens, Martin Puryear, Sebastião Salgado, William Wiley, and many others, as well as thematic exhibitions including Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the»50s &»60s; State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970; In a Different Light; Human / Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet; Masterworks of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds; Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Painting; and Andrea Fraser: Aren't They Lovely?.

The museum's collection of over 19,000 works of art includes important holdings of Neolithic Chinese ceramics, Ming and Qing Dynasty Chinese painting, Old Master works on paper, Italian Baroque painting, early American painting, Abstract Expressionist painting, contemporary photography, and video art.

Wood from qing dynasty (1644 — 1911).

Ritual dou vessel with phoenix - shaped handles (Qing dynasty, reign of Emperor Yongzheng: 1723 — 35), by the Imperial Workshop, Beijing.

Chinese, Qing dynasty, 18th - 19th Centuries.

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For the stop - animation film Mr Sea (2014), Geng uses ceramics to craft a tale reminiscent of the stories found in the Qing Dynasty collection Strange Tales from Make - do Studio, merging narrative story with her exploration of the medium's visual language.

The Orchid, a deadly Assassin, grew up in China and served as a military advisor during the Qing Dynasty, honing her murderous skills.

In the Ming Dynasty destroyed and rebuild in the Qing Dynasty something like over 300 years ago.

Visit Xizhou village and market, home to the Bai people with some of the best examples of traditional Qing Dynasty architecture, continue to Zhoucheng village and the 9th - century «Three Pagodas».

While the temple was destroyed during the Qing Dynasty revolution, the two jade Buddha statues were preserved and a new temple was built to house them in 1928.

Day 6 Tour of Pingyao, one of China's best preserved ancient cities, lined with Ming and Qing dynasty houses, temples and towers and encircled by 14th century walls.

From a former monastery on a private Venetian island, to a historic building that encompasses an ancient Chinese courthouse and Old Qing Dynasty theater, each reflects its destination's heritage through design and architecture.

The emperors of successive dynasties ruled China until the beginning of the twentieth century (with the exception of a brief period of Mongol rule between 1271 and 1368) when Chinese Nationalists ousted the Qing dynasty in 1912.

After normalizing relations with the new Qing dynasty, Joseon experienced a nearly 200 - year period of peace.

Some 300 precious Qing dynasty objects from the royal palace (now the national museum in Beijing), and the bicycle of the last emperor, Pu - Yi.

The Temple House, a 100 - room property set in a Qing dynasty building in up - and - coming Chengdu, China, was No. 19, while the Alfond Inn, an Orlando - area property known for its contemporary art collection, was No. 62.

The tradition of ice carving stretches all the way back to the Qing dynasty, when fishermen would extract ice from the Songhua River to carve lanterns.

Johnston was the only foreigner in history to be allowed inside the inner court of the Qing Dynasty.

Scholar Rana Mitter describes the era of modernization in China and the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

Lau and Chan had some kind of a disagreement on the set of the film, leading to Lau's departure, whereupon he quickly made Drunken Master III, in which Wong and his father take on not the Qing, but a local warlord (the film appears to be set sometime after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911).

He lived through the Qing dynasty, the early republican years, the northern conquest [by the government against warlords], the fight against the Japanese [during WWII] and finally the exodus to Hong Kong [during and after the Chinese civil war between 1945 and 1949].

Bodyguards & Assassins — Another historical epic from China, in the manner of John Woo's Red Cliff, set in the early 20th Century as Sun Yat - sen arrives in Hong Kong to plan the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and has to be protected from the titular assassins by the titular bodyguards.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 1911 (Unrated) Jackie Chan directed and stars in this historical drama recounting the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty which led to the founding of the Republic of China.