'qing' is not a word in English.
It is a word in Chinese. If you are writing in English, it would not be appropriate to use this word.
The first of these was a sense of a growing Asia-Pacific identity, typified by the 50,000 Chinese who by 1875 had settled in San Francisco, even though this was vigorously fought by the Qing rulers (and later by the Communists).
To say one has qing jin qing chu is relatively little to boast about.
Immigration only strengthens us even more.Philip Fontaine St Petersburg, FloridaFairytale of BeijingSIR – Perhaps China will worry its neighbours further and make a claim that the North Pole is actually an extension of northern China, as found on an ancient map made during the Qing dynasty ("Regional turbulence", November 30th).
He fled to Tokyo, the destination of thousands of young Chinese reformers and radicals, taking advantage of another significant Qing reform at the turn of the century: allowing Chinese to study in Japan.His nearly six years in Japan transformed Song from a disciple of revolution to a leader.
Fantastic profits beckoned for the foreigners.Yet for all the humiliation of the war and the treaty, the Qing court treated the affair as if these outsiders from Europe were just another breed of pesky barbarian.
But the Japanese do not mention that in 1895 Qing China lay prostrate, defeated the previous year by an aggressive, expansionist and rapidly Westernising Japan.
An exhibition about the Yuan style that primarily shows Ming- and Qing-era paintings may seem perplexing, but it illustrates the idea of a legacy.
Bitter tensions may be roiling in Xinjiang, but in the cool shade of craggy pine trees and the sweeping eaves of the central courtyard of the Qing-dynasty mosque, diversity and tolerance were on display.Though concentrated in western China, Islam is practised across the country, with more than 23m adherents.
As China rises, its officials have promoted ever-grander projects, culminating in a 12-acre Qing-dynasty garden that China has offered to build in the National Arboretum.
Other economists use similar techniques to reveal comparable immobility in societies from 19th-century Spain to post-Qing-dynasty China.
One of China's few tangible rewards was the return of the Qing-dynasty astronomical instruments, which had been taken by German troops from Beijing after the Boxer Uprising of 1900, and installed in a park in Potsdam.
