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Sixty years have passed since Gustaf made his first purchase: a hexagonal famille rose dish of the Ch'ien Lung period.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ch'ien Lung had no cause for anxiety on this score; whatever record might leap to light, he never could be shamed.
From The Civilization of China by Giles, Herbert Allen
Emperors of China— Ch'ien Lung, catalogue enterprise, 69.
From China and the Chinese by Giles, Herbert Allen
These are the dynastic histories of China, in a uniform edition published in the year 1747, under the auspices of the famous Emperor Ch'ien Lung, who himself contributed a Preface.
From China and the Chinese by Giles, Herbert Allen
Ch'ien Lung began in 1735 by giving them the alternative of becoming ordinary laymen or of entering a monastery but this drastic measure was considerably modified in the next few years.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
China China's Manchu Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 64, who likes to spend his afternoons writing poetry and practicing calligraphy, has just won another smashing victory on the battlefield.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tablet of Tsze-zo is now the sixth, east among 'The Wise Ones,' to which place it was promoted in the third year of Ch'ien-lung of the present dynasty.
From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by Legge, James
The author was a member of the Han-lin college, and the work was first published with an imperial preface by the Ch'ien-lung emperor.
From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by Legge, James
This is a most voluminous work, published in the tenth year of Ch'ien-lung, A.D.
From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by Legge, James
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