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History
In the spring of 1601 a mechanical clock was carried into the Forbidden City at Beijing, and for the first time in the history of the Ming court the hours were announced by something other than a watchman striking a bronze bell.
History
South of the Forbidden City, behind a wall that is square at one end and round at the other, there is a place where the emperor of China went to stand in the open sky and pray for rain.
History
On the morning of 30 April 1661 a thick mist lay over the sandbar of Tayouan, off the south-west coast of Taiwan, where the Dutch East India Company kept its fortress and its trading town.
History
In November 1635, the ruler of a rising state in what is now north-east China issued an order about a name. His people had long been called Jušen, known in Chinese as Nüzhen and in English as Jurchen.
