Throne has carved panels ... international head of Chinese ceramics and art at Sotheby's. The winning bid of US $11,068,193 (HK $85,780,000) was by a private Shanghai businessman.

Chinese imperial food dates back to slave society ... In order to help Prince Guang ascend to the throne, he learned the unique skill of “roasting fish ” from a famous chef.

These seven great expeditions brought a vast web of trading links—from Taiwan to the Persian Gulf—under Chinese imperial control ... who usurped the throne in 1402. Disapproved of by the ...

Among other things, the Imperial House Law specifies procedures for succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne as well as the status of imperial family members under the postwar Constitution.

We need a military that's flat out hostile. We need a military full of Type A men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls. But we don't -- we don't have that now. We can't even get women off ...

When he ascended to the throne ... and outside the imperial palace. The successive reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong produced one of the most prosperous periods in Chinese history.