When the American writer David Kidd arrived in Beijing in 1981, having not seen China’s capital for three decades, he found the city almost unrecognizable. The fabled city walls were gone; its ...

By Ian Johnson Visitors now throng the Forbidden City in Beijing.Credit...Yan Cong for The New York Times BEIJING — For much of the past century, the Forbidden City has been an imposing void in ...

food culture was an indispensable part of the entire culture inside the Forbidden City,” says Daisy Yiyou Wang, deputy director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, a sister museum of Beijing’s ...

The museum served as China's imperial palace from 1420 to 1911. Built in 1772 during the reign of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) ...

In the heart of modern Beijing is the world’s largest palace complex, big enough to hold 50 Buckingham Palaces and covering more than 7.75 million square feet. Known as the Forbidden City ...

For most Chinese, the 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China has passed like any other weekday. And that’s ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element of Chinese wooden architecture.

We've curated a list of the 20 best places to visit and things to do in Beijing to explore the city’s heart and soul.

The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Exchanges between China and France in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Palace Museum, Beijing, 1 April-30 June ...

Zhao began delving into the Forbidden City’s culinary mysteries more than four decades ago. Beijing back in the 1980s was still a city of bicycles and backstreets – a far cry from the ...