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Lavish, 800-year-old tombs in China may hold remains of Great Jin dynasty elites
one for their Chinese subjects and one for the Jurchen." The Jurchen Jin rose to power amid rebellions against the region's Liao dynasty in the 12th century and fell to invading Mongols in the ...
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Beijing's History
Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty (916-1125 ... After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, China fell prey to the Northern Warlords and Kuomintang, Beijing suffered the same fate as ...
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Wooden Pagoda in Yingxian County of Shanxi Province
it is the only extant large wooden pagoda in China and also the tallest among ancient wooden buildings of the world. The pagoda was constructed in 1056 during the Liao Dynasty. The pagoda was ...
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China's aesthetic of bronze in spotlight at NYC exhibition
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, brought a collection of ancient Chinese bronzes to the ...
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Rare wooden hearse found in 1,000-year-old tomb
HOHHOT - Archaeologists have found an unusually large hearse buried alongside a tomb in north China's Inner Mongolia ... of burying hearses during the Liao Dynasty (916-1125), reported Xinhua.