Visitors come from all over China to see the palace; some even dress up and play at emperor or empress. Squinting through a crack in the door ... Syndication But the imperial family is now ...

in spite of Communist Party leader Mao Zedong’s disdain for old buildings and other remnants of China’s imperial past – as well as suggestions by others in the leadership that the palace ...

Tian'anmen Gate was the principal entry to the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing ... stone lions and white marble bridges decorate the front. Early in the Ming Dynasty, a wooden memorial ...

Known as the Forbidden City, it served as the symbolic and political center of imperial China ... entrance to the Forbid­den City. It opened into the emperor’s private residence and was used by ...

In 1924, the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty was removed from the Forbidden City, and in 1925 the Palace Museum was established here. The Forbidden City has four entrance gates: the main ...

In the early 11th century, the Tuoba group of the ancient nomadic Dangxiangqiang tribe originally living in the mountainous area of China ... in front of the underground palace of the imperial ...

Editor’s Note: Jonathan Chatwin is the author of “Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China” and “The ... guarded makes it more like the imperial palace of centuries past: “Since ...

The Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty ... characteristic of urban planning and palace construction in ancient China, featuring a central axis, symmetrical design and layout of outer court at the ...

Because of this military power, Bowlby was confident that imperial China's rulers ... the Summer Palace's destruction in 1860, the 8th Earl of Elgin made a triumphant entry to the centre ...

Correspondence of the North China Herald. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as ...

in spite of Communist Party leader Mao Zedong’s disdain for old buildings and other remnants of China’s imperial past – as well as suggestions by others in the leadership that the palace ...