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

Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to most of imperial China ... forbidden city,” the full name of the imperial complex in Beijing.

The Forbidden City was once one of the ... War and yet to discover America, China’s Ming Dynasty ruler was moving into his new home in the center of Beijing and beginning to strengthen his ...

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 ... home of China’s emperors ...

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 ... part of China's modern history — little known outside ...

Roughly 300 years later, Beijing had become a crowded, windswept city; the Jesuit missionary ... students to enter university after China resumed the college entrance exam in 1977 — has been studying ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing ... craftsmen in ancient China added exquisite carvings ...

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 ...