People in China knew the Qing dynasty was under threat too. The Civil War period had done much harm and China’s defeat by Japan in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 was a further shock. To China ...
In its early years, the Qing Dynasty had a tea kitchen (for tea with ... The rites for the meals, the number of people, and the use, cost, variety, and quality of sumptuous courses at each meal ...