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Qing Dynasty

Manchu language class at People's University in Beijing.

The Manchus ruled China into the 20th century, but their language is nearly extinct

Development & Education

The last emperors of China, the Qing Dynasty, were Manchus. Their language is close to dying out in modern China, so now there’s a last-ditch effort to save it, and the link it provides to China’s history and traditional medicine.

Some of the ruins at Yuanmingyuan in Beijing.

Ruins in Beijing help explain why the Chinese are so wary of the west

Conflict & Justice

A Chance to See the Real Chinese Imperial Palace

Arts, Culture & Media

Marking 100 Years Since the Qing Dynasty and Imperial Chinese Rule

Global Politics

Chinese Opera Qing Cheng Dazzles Edinburgh Festival

Arts, Culture & Media

China’s Environment

Journalist Dai Qing, jailed because of her opposition to the Three Gorges Dam project, talks to LOE about the politics of the environment in her native land, China.

The World

China’s lost art

Global Politics

China will send a team of experts around the world to catalog cultural relics it claims were looted from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace. The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at an episode many Chinese regard as one of the most humiliating in their history.