Hall of Supreme HarmonyRaised some 100 feet above the central great courtyard, the Forbidden City’s grandest structure houses only the Dragon Throne, ceremonial seat of the Ming and Qing ...

Beijing has served as the political and cultural capital in China since the 15th century. At its core lies the Forbidden City, the largest preserved ancient wooden palatial compound in the world. This ...

To the Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City ... Pu Yi back on a throne in the Forbidden City. Somewhere in its ...

Before Peiping fell to the Japanese in 1937, two hallowed objects were smuggled out of its ancient Forbidden City ... and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had ...

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 ... power behind the throne in the late ...