Step into the heart of Beijing with our exploration of China's Forbidden City. Discover the rich history and stunning ...

My 48-hour adventure in Beijing! A city bustling with history, culture, and mouth-watering food. From scaling the ancient Great Wall to uncovering the secrets of the Forbidden City and indulging in ...

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.

BEIJING – BEIJING (AP) — Deep in a long-forgotten corner of the Forbidden City and up a twisting stairway are four sets of twin doors, shut for more than eight decades. They reveal rare ...

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. In 1420, while Europe was in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War and yet to ...

A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that produces images, which are then projected onto computer screens.

A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that produces images, which are then projected onto computer screens.

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 ...

On the eve of Japan's invasion of China in the early 1930s, a group of museum curators at the Forbidden City in Peking (now Beijing) gathered together and asked themselves: What would happen to ...

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 ...

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. In 1420, while Europe was in the midst ...