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...Covid-related complications also claimed the lives in Beijing of 39-year-old opera singer Chu Lanlan and famous dancer and politician Zhao Qing, who died at 87, according to friends and relatives....
...Since the Qing dynasty collapsed in 1911, there have been only two peaceful transitions of power, both under Communist rule....
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...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....
...jamil.anderlini@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Hongzhi Emperor was the Ming dynasty’s best / From Zhao Xiaoou, Aberdeen, UK...
...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....
...Additional reporting by Zhao Tianqi...
...The Church of Almighty God was founded in central China’s Henan province in the early 1990s by a man called Zhao Weishan and has now spread throughout the country....
...Additional reporting by Zhao Tianqi in Beijing...
...Mr Zhao was placed under house arrest until his death in 2005....
...Things have, however, improved since then: Zhao Ziyang, the late party chief, was merely kept under house arrest after he was deposed in 1989....
...Bonnefoux’s new work also used Chi Lin’s Dance from Sheng’s composition Flute Moon, based on poems from the Sung Dynesty written by the Chinese woman poet Li Qing Zhao....
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