The Grand Council of State was created from the Military Supply Office, an agency established in the Yung-cheng period (1723-1735) by the Board of Revenue and Population for the mobilization of troops in northwest China. ......

On November 15, 1947, an opening ceremony was held marking the completion of the Chu-Tung railway. A train, covered with ribbons, arrived at the Hsin-Chu train station.  ......

The sliding puzzle is roughly divided into two major types: those that use identical shapes and those that use non-identical shapes. .....

This blank Bu coin with its high shoulders, hollow head and pointy foot is from the East Zhou dynasty. The manufacture is perfect. It has a simple antique look, and a large example of the early stages of monetary currency in China.The earliest currency was made by imitating the shape of a spade. ...

This species is diurnal and feeds on insects and small invertebrates; it is oviparous and usually produces 1 to 3 eggs per nest. It can be found in edges of woods and on cultivated fields, and is fond of ......

The scene is divided into five registers:
The first register (triangular gable) shows the Queen Mother of the West sitting in the middle, accompanied by winged immortals, sacred beasts, and hares grinding the elixir of immortality in a mortar. ......

In the Ch’ing dynasty, edicts (ch’ih-shu) were used to appoint officials to posts outside of the capital. In 1885, Liu Jui-fên was appointed as the ambassador to Russia and Great Britain. Two years later, ......

Founder of the Amati school of instrument making, Andrea Amati was born around 1505 in Cremona, Italy, though the year of his birth remains in dispute. Already a well-known instrument maker by 1525, he set up his own workshop in 1538, thus beginning the family’s instrument making history. ...

Acquired by Lin, Hen-li (1957,  Nanao, Yilan County)
Collected by Museum of Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Weaved with cowries and small brass bells,.......

Li Tai-Hsiang said that this song has romantic and beautiful impressions, but in fact it passes on his unchanging persistence in art. The tableau was inspired by the movie “The French Lieutenant’s Woman.” .....