Sentence examples for imperial tour from inspiring English sources

This work was completed probably by 212BC, signalled by Qin Shi Huang's imperial tour of inspection and the construction of the Direct Road connecting the capital Xianyang with the Ordos.

During the Qing era, the Kangxi emperor revived the ancient tradition of Tours of the South (nanxun), that is, imperial tours of the southern provinces.

Says Guy Rubin of Imperial Tours, "What's happening at our end of the market is the imagination is the only limitation".

First, it adds to our understanding of both writing about local sites and scenery and responses to the imperial tours in North China.

The imperial tours and their material legacies, such as steles and scroll paintings, intersected with a corpus of writings about these sites that was preserved and augmented through the successive compilation of local gazetteers (difang zhi).

Abercrombie & Kent and Imperial Tours offer access to closed parts of the Forbidden City on private walkabouts that will cost at least $2,000 per hours-long tour for a group of up to 10 people during the Olympics, though prices will vary greatly as the Games draw nearer.

The upper works included several decks with palatial cabins and saloons, containing thrones and couches all ready for imperial tours of inspection.

It stood at the heart of an imperial circuit through which emperors toured, relaxed, and conducted state business for up to seven months a year.

Travel takes a more prosaic form in an outsize 18th-century Qing handscroll documenting the progress of an imperial inspection tour of southern cities.

The imperial inspection tours of the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors were unique in Chinese history.

The Qing dynasty commissioned enormous scrolls to document imperial inspection tours.