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Those friars who followed Matteo Ricci into China brought with them the technology that mesmerized the Ming and Qing courts--clocks, celestial globes, telescopes.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Visions of China: Macau
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Before 1990, Suzhou was a beautiful tourist town, the home of many garden villas that were the summer homes of Ming and Qing Dynasty officials.
FORBES: Thoughts on China
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Stone architecture dating to the Ming and Qing dynasties (which ruled from 1368 to 1912) stands perfectly preserved 40m under Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang province, 400km south of Shanghai.
BBC: China��s Atlantis of the East