Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace ... Tiananmen Square at the epicenter of Beijing. Beyond its towering ...

The Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang consists of 114 buildings constructed between 1625–26 and 1783. It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty ...

Between Beijing and Chengde as many as 20 ... The Chengde temporary dwelling palace is the largest imperial park in China, occupying an area of over 560 hectares. It is surrounded by a high ...

Explore 500 years of China's imperial history at the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site once home to 24 Ming and Qing emperors.

In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and ... which sought to grind out all vestiges of China’s imperial past. With the abandonment in recent years of ...

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The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The ...

Imperial meals in the Qing Palace were dominated by the ... so the raw materials generally came from around Beijing, Mongolia, and Northeast China. A few ingredients also came from other parts ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China's Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which ...

Restorers at Beijing's Forbidden City Museum use modern technology to preserve ancient artifacts with traditional techniques.

The event unveiled 17 cultural venues in Beijing to host the salon's upcoming activities, including the Imperial Ancestral ...

China has appointed a new trade negotiator in the midst of its tariff fight with the United States as the world’s two largest ...