In places, the Chinese capital's lack of colour puts the beige in Beijing. It's not the greenest ... commented one traveler about the Old Summer Palace. "The temple's destroyed so there's nothing ...

[Photo by Wang Kaihao/China Daily] An old and rare map of the Yuanmingyuan ruins was recently donated to the administration of the former imperial resort in Beijing, and released to media on Monday.

ordered troops to destroy both the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace to avenge the killing of several British envoys to Beijing. By striking sites of cultural and imperial significance ...

Shaped like a drum, the blue and white garden seat excavated from a goldfish pond inside the ruins of the Old Summer Palace in the Chinese capital, Beijing, sports an auspicious lotus pattern that ...

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the destruction of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, by French and British soldiers in the Second Opium War. Although it remains a minor event in history books ...

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A joint exhibition focusing on the Old Summer Palace, or "Yuanmingyuan" in Chinese, and the Chengde Mountain Resort opened on Monday in Beijing. The exhibition, divided ...

During the 45-minute drive from Beijing ... Aman at Summer Palace, you’ll be transported from new Beijing with all its modern architecture and cacophony of street sounds to old, quiet and ...

ordered troops to destroy both the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace to avenge the killing of several British envoys to Beijing. By striking sites of cultural and imperial significance ...