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...says Yang....
...Even Le Corbusier, Hong Kong-born gallerist Pearl Lam notes, was influenced by Qing-dynasty art....
...This is known as yin yang guai qi, “the weirdness of yin and yang”, an expression that refers to a deliberate and often sarcastic strain of ambiguity....
...Yuan Yang is the FT’s outgoing deputy Beijing bureau chief. Additional reporting by Nian Liu Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Yuan Yang is the FT’s deputy Beijing bureau chief Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Chinese state media contrasted Yang’s comments with paintings of foreign colonial powers lording it over late Qing dynasty officials, who were repeatedly humbled in a series of conflicts with European, Japanese...
...Last weekend was Qing Ming, China’s annual tomb sweeping festival, when families show filial piety to ancestors by cleaning headstones, laying flowers and setting fire to paper money to send the deceased...
...Shih explains his fascination with the period: “In the early 20th century, China was undergoing upheaval, in the period between the end of the Qing dynasty and the republic. It was a mess.”...
...After the British looted and burnt down the palace in 1860, this section was left to grow wild, leaving a landscape of crumbling Qing-dynasty bridges ringed by wildflowers....
...That speech, delivered with gusto in Mandarin while sporting a Qing dynasty style shirt, demonstrated a willingness to throw himself into the local language that is rare among foreign executives in China...
...Additional reporting by Yuan Yang Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Others spoke of Zhang Xun, a contemporary of Yuan who tried to restore the Qing emperor....
...“Are we going back to the Qing Dynasty?” wrote user F1023, in a reference to the so-called “literary inquisition” that jailed intellectuals and writers....
...Zhao Wei, 41, rose to prominence in the late 1990s when she starred as Little Swallow in the TV soap opera My Fair Princess, set in the Qing dynasty....
...“You can see that China’s investment demand has the potential to be astonishing,” said Yang Qing, deputy general manager in the global market department of Bank of China, this month at the London Bullion...
...The production, four years in the making, jointly credits directors Tian Qinxin and Yang Xiaoyang, the latter for choreography and battle sequences....
...“We must control the negative publicity,” Chinese deputy premier Wang Yang told his counterpart Yuri Trutnev at a recent conference in Russia....
...After nearly two decades of war, Hong and his followers were finally defeated by the Qing empire, with help from British and French colonial forces....
...There, an array of courtiers’ robes, woven in silk and gold and blazoned with the dragons of the Qing dynasty, glows quietly behind glass. But one gown doesn’t match the others....
...The artists Antony Gormley and Yang Fudong were among guests at its impressive opening. Wang is director of both establishments....
...Calling themselves “a pair of harmonious doves” and “yin and yang”, UK plc’s two top-drawer sales representatives have had a spiffing week in China....
...Even further back, there was Yang Guifei, an imperial consort during the Tang dynasty in the 8th century....
...Most were built during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), with some constructed as recently as the 1940s....
...For Zheng-Yang Shuting, who studied at Edinburgh and now teaches English in Beijing, that is certainly true....
...Hence the fact that Yang Jisheng’s most recent book Tombstone, on the Great Famine of 1959-1962, was banned in mainland China. China should make a huge contribution to the century ahead....
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