He took part in the huge effort to catalogue the Forbidden City's art collections in 1924-25. He helped establish the Palace Museum in Peking in 1925 and became its director — reluctantly — in ...

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.

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 ...

The creation from Huo Tingxiao, art director on such movies as ‘Farewell ... the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element of Chinese ...

"Secret World of the Forbidden City," which opens tomorrow at the Oakland ... was emptied of hundreds of thousands of its finest art objects, many collected by the emperor Qianlong (ruled 1736 ...

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 ...

Since 1949, Taipei’s National Palace Museum has housed around 600,000 artefacts and works of art from Beijing’s Forbidden City Photo: Peellden Almost 75 years ago, the world’s largest ...

Inside the Forbidden City, within a lab-like workshop ... undergoes analysis in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine. The resulting images, projected onto computer screens, hold clues ...

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 ...

"It deeply integrates the essence of traditional Chinese culture with cinematic art." The poster's kaleidoscope ... of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a ...