Over the past four years, Yan Wenyun has taught the Manchu language for free to more than 400 students in her public classes in Harbin, the capital of northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, or ...

SANJIAZI, China — Seated cross-legged in her farmhouse on the kang, a brick sleeping platform warmed by a fire below, Meng Shujing lifted her chin and sang a lullaby in Manchu, softly but clearly.

QIQIHAR: Sanjiazi, or "Ilan Boo" (Three Families) in Manchu, is a small village in Fuyu County of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. With some of its elderly villagers being the last ...

The Manchu language, long thought to have vanished, is alive and well in a village in Fuyu County, Heilongjiang Province. Sanjiazi Village is reportedly the only place in the world where the language ...

Vol. 58, No. 1-2, The Manchus and “Tartar” Identity in the Chinese Empire (2015), pp. 59-87 (29 pages) The Central Asiatic Journal has been published since 1955, focusing on the linguistic, cultural ...

BEIJING — Nobody would suspect that this impish toddler is of noble lineage. Yiyi has the same buzz cut as other 3-year-old Chinese boys, the familiar habit of scattering his fleet of toy cars across ...

QAPQAL XIBE AUTONOMOUS COUNTY, China — Loyal to the core and prized for their horsemanship, several thousand Manchu soldiers heeded the emperor’s call and, with families and livestock in tow, embarked ...