BEIJING - Under a cerulean Beijing sky, dozens of international journalists, including myself, visited the Forbidden City— a ...

The Hall of Supreme Harmony, where emperors conducted affairs of state, is by general consent the most magnificent building in all of the Forbidden City. In constructing it, its builders relied on ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...

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 ...

The Forbidden City will be going dark along with other international landmarks including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Empire State Building in New York, Table Mountain in Cape Town, the London Eye, ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing ... "It is like the ceiling of a building, to which skilled ...

Tourists with a disability from all over the world will now have better access to Beijing's famous Forbidden City and Great Wall following extensive ... three barrier-free tourist routes covering the ...