The Forbidden City in Beijing served as the residence of Chinese emperors for over 500 years and remained off-limits to ...

In the China Institute’s new virtual series, The Forbidden City at 600, the Institute celebrates “the architecture, history, design, and secrets of Beijing’s iconic Forbidden City complex” on the ...

At the centre of Beijing sits a place that once functioned as a city within a city. From above, the Forbidden City appears orderly and measured, enclosed by walls and surrounded by water. On the ...

The Forbidden City in Beijing was China's imperial palace from 1420 to 1924 and is now a major museum.

Beijing’s Palace Museum, located in the heart of the Forbidden City, contains the world’s largest collection of Chinese art, spanning nearly 5,000 years of history. Now, more than 900 of those ...

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 ...

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 ...