A Hong Kong-based collector has paid $251 million HK ($32.9 million Cdn) for a Qing Dynasty vase, setting a record for a Chinese work of art at auction. The yellow-ground famille-rose double-gourd ...

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, however, it fell into the hands of a private collector. The map, which is 9.64 m long and 40 cm wide, was drawn using the brushwork of traditional Chinese paintings.

The map was made by Qing official Ye Zipei in 1845 and reprinted in 1851, consisting of eight scrolls that can be rolled up. Every scroll runs at 130cm in length and 28cm in width.

A dynasty is a series of rulers who are all from the same family. Chinese history before 1911 is almost always talked about in terms of the dynastic cycle. The dynastic cycle means that one ...