Met zijn prachtige tuinen en vele gebouwen (met bijna 10.000 kamers vol meubels en kunstwerken) is het een waardevolle getuigenis van de Chinese beschaving gedurende de Ming en Qing dynastieën. Het ...

Looking at Felicity Aylieff’s monumental hand-thrown blue and white porcelain towers reaching up to five metres into the ...

However, the building consists of two parts: the original Ming-era tower base and the tower on top of it. Damages mainly happened to the latter, which was once rebuilt in 1995, local officials say.

shapes, structures, and cultural connotations of Suzhou-style chairs, the differences between Suzhou-style chairs of the Ming and Qing dynasties were analyzed (pp. 724–727). There is relatively ...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate face perception ability in adult patients with amblyopia. Methods: We conducted two psychophysical experiments. The Face-detection task involved 25 amblyopic ...

He had no patience, he said, with the idea of carrying a Ming vase across a slippery floor, the analogy retailed by Roy Jenkins, one of the founders of the party. Clegg presented himself as a ...

A former West Ham youth player is set to face trial in Japan after a British court granted his extradition over a £680k jewellery store heist in Tokyo. Ex-football prodigy Kaine Wright, 27 ...

And when clips of Yang hit social media, the comparisons weren't to 7-foot-6 Chinese legend Yao Ming but instead to Jokic. Yang clearly has a great basketball IQ and feel for the game, and he ...

Exclusive polling shows that 96 per cent of people cannot confidently explain the basis of the Chancellor’s economic plan. By Will Dunn In May 2001 the Conservative MP Oliver Letwin let slip, on a ...

Wright, once a promising footballer on the books of West Ham United and Brentford, served time in prison after being convicted in 2023 of trying to sell a Ming vase which was stolen from a museum ...

“In British politics, the image of someone carrying a Ming vase is a common metaphor. Usually, the vase refers to a delicate political consensus. In the case of Reform, it is Mr Farage himself.” What ...