In 1706, at the height of the Chinese Rites Controversy, the Kangxi Emperor appointed two Jesuit missionaries, Fathers Antonio de Barros and Antoine de Beauvollier, as his special envoys to Rome.

127 European maps of China made during the Ming and Qing dynasties feature in a book which shows how the Middle Kingdom was seen in the West, and by itself The Kangxi emperor is unhappy.

In the late 17th century, two Jesuits, Jean-Francois Gerbillon and Joachim Bouvet, were brought to the palace to teach the principles of Euclidean geometry to the Kangxi Emperor, who made time for ...

Jesuits are members of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus. Yongzheng's father the Kangxi Emperor did not clearly designate a successor, and there was much competition among the princes as to who ...

The Manchu and Han banquet was introduced during Emperor Kangxi’s reign at the government house and official residence of the upper strata. The Manchu and Han banquet derived from changes in the ...

The empire trebled in size and its population grew to over 350 million. The Kangxi Emperor reduced taxes and improved agriculture, by introducing new types of rice, potatoes and corn. He supported ...

The museum will also use multimedia to recreate a handwritten letter from Louis XIV to the Kangxi emperor in 1688. Written in ...

The Lugou River was also known as the Wuding (Lacking Stability) River, and despite the fact that Emperor Kangxi had the auspicious name Yongding (Eternal Stability) bestowed upon it, it was only ...