The Forbidden City’s role as the imperial residence ended in 1924 when the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, was overthrown. Although he had abdicated the throne in 1912, he and his family were ...

The Cold Palace, an enigmatic section of the Forbidden City, offers a compelling glimpse into the darker aspects of imperial life in China. While the Forbidden City itself is renowned for its opulence ...

BEIJING — It’s highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction ...

To the Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic was cut off. Troops with fixed bayonets lined the road. At ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing's Forbidden City may close down its Starbucks in the face of growing protests that the presence of a U.S. coffee shop in the former imperial palace is an insult to Chinese ...

This documentary shines light on the unsung life stories ofrestorers of cultural relics working inside the Forbidden City, together with the history of theantiques and the palace, the procedures of ...