The Portraits of Periodical Offering (simplified Chinese: 职贡图; traditional Chinese: 職貢圖; pinyin: Zhígòngtú) were tributary documentative paintings (with...

in light of the disturbance in the end of Sui dynasty. His realm was destroyed by Tang dynasty in 621. The Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang by...

thousand li... — "Hua" paragraph in Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang. The Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang mentions that no envoys from...

Emperor. China already had a long tradition of such paintings (designated as "Portraits of Periodical Offering"), starting from around the 6th century CE...

Lifestyle of Siamese people and Traditional Thai house by Simon de La Loubère Portrait of Siamese aristocrats from The Portraits of Periodical Offering of Imperial...

T'ukri-k'. Several portraits of ambassadors from the region of Tokharistan are known from the Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, originally painted...

Chinese geography Portraits of Periodical Offering Daston, Lorraine; Vidal, Fernando (2010). The Moral Authority of Nature. University of Chicago Press....

have been the basis for the original Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, and the Hephthalites account of the Liangshu (Volume 54), and this account...

Chinese court of Emperor Yuan of Liang in his capital Jingzhou in 516–520 CE, with explanatory text. Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, 11th century...

of Pax Sinica came into being during the Han dynasty of China. Domestically, the power of the emperor was consolidated following the devastation of the...

Eksuda (March 2019). "Picturing Femininity: Portraits of the Early Modern Siamese Women". Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art...

from Kucha is illustrated in Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, painted in 526–539 AD, an 11th-century Song copy of which as remained. In the late...

from Kucha is illustrated in Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, painted in 526-539 CE, an 11th century Song copy of which has survived. The Chinese...

Anyang Eagle-shaped pottery of neolithic Yangshao culture A Song dynasty copy of the Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, dated to the 6th century...

house of the Qing dynasty and the Manchukuo. The Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang illustrates foreign envoys in the imperial court of the Liang...

offering to cede the western Caucasus to the Byzantines. To cement the alliance, Khosrow also married Maurice's daughter Miriam. Under the command of...

to leave and stopped offering transport assistance for visiting missions. The size of delegations was restricted from hundreds of people to less than a...

Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan. From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes regularly used the Chinese character 倭; 'submissive'', 'distant''...

of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Official diplomatic relations were first established in 1937. The two old civilizations had a history of cultural...

Peninsula. The name is Sanskrit in origin; it is thought to be a combination of langkha for "resplendent land" -sukkha for "bliss". The kingdom, along with...

700 BC. Similarly, according to The History of Korea, the Paleolithic people are not the direct ancestors of the present Korean people, but their direct...

constituted much of the northern half of the island, was the largest in terms of land area and military strength but was economically the weakest of the three...

given to various groups of people at different periods in ancient China. The Qiang people are generally thought to have been of Tibeto-Burman origin, though...

document Huangqing Zhigongtu (Chinese: 皇清職貢圖, literally "Portraits of Periodical Offering of the Qing"), the entry regarding Koreans includes the statement:...

after the First Opium War, the Chinese diplomat Qiying gifted intimate portraits of himself to representatives from Italy, England, the United States, and...

found instead that its policy of using trade and cultural exchanges and offering legitimacy and prestige to the Silla monarchy was effective in keeping...

phi which are guardian deities of places, or towns are celebrated at festivals with communal gatherings and offerings of food. The spirits run throughout...

of the Hephthalite ("Hua") envoy to the Chinese depicted in Portraits of Periodical Offering have been argued to show that the Hephthalites had "Mongolian"...

located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla. While the three kingdoms...

of Persian merchants. One of them was a naturalized Chinese merchant of Persian origin called Li Susha, who was known for his wealth and his offering...