Events from the year 1872 in China. Tongzhi Emperor (12th year) Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi Viceroy of Zhili — Li Hongzhang Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Li Henian...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1872. 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...

under the auspices of the Chinese Ministry of Transport. Founded in 1872 as the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company in Shanghai, the firm has developed...

Högquist, born 18 June 1839 in Hamburg, died 1874 in London. Max Högquist, born 12 August 1840 in Stockholm, died 1872 in China. By Countess Jaquette Löwenhielm...

dynasty appeared to recover in the Tongzhi Restoration (1860–1872), led by Manchu royal family reformers and Han Chinese officials such as Zeng Guofan...

a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, and has been added to the Intangible...

Homosexuality has been documented in China since ancient times. According to one study by Bret Hinsch, for some time after the fall of the Han dynasty...

been called "the first officially recorded dumb blonde" Sai Jinhua (1872–1936), Chinese courtesan Sophia Baddeley (1745–1786), British courtesan Støvlet-Cathrine...

The China Review: Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East was an academic journal published in Hong Kong from 1872 to 1901 as an outlet for scholarly writings...

Hundun (Chinese: 混沌; pinyin: Hùndùn; Wade–Giles: Hun4-tun4; lit. 'muddled confusion') is both a "legendary faceless being" in Chinese mythology and the...