Flag of the Qing dynasty he petitioned the imperial court for permission and subsequently altered the triangular naval flag into a rectangular one. Seeing Western countries flying national flags on official occasions, Li Hongzhang also asked Empress Dowager Cixi to select a national flag for the Qing dynasty. Among the proposals for use of the Ba gua flag, the Yellow dragon flag and the Qilin flag, Cixi selected the Yellow dragon design. In 1888, the imperial court promulgated the naval flag as the Qing national flag. The notion of yellow as representative of Manchu ethnicity was used in the flags of the Five-coloured flag of
Many Rings convincing representation of its unconventional sonority, and some care has been taken to register all the elements with something like democracy." In his review for "JazzTimes" Larry Appelbaum states "Everything is rooted in the improviser's collective ability to listen and create spontaneous harmony, pulse and structure." Many Rings Many Rings is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris which was recorded in 1999 and released on the Knitting Factory label. He leads an experimental quartet featuring bassoonist Karen Borca, saxophonist Rob Brown and accordionist Andrea Parkins. In his review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson states "This is hardly a session