The Forbidden City’s appeal to this group has been driven by its recent use as a setting for a range of high-profile television dramas (including the wildly popular “Story of Yanxi Palace ...

The Forbidden City (also called Zijin Cheng) is a 72-hectare (178 acres) palace complex in Beijing that was used by the emperors of China from A.D. 1420 to 1911. In total, 24 emperors occupied the ...

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The Forbidden City would be the home and seat of power for 24 rulers—14 from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and 10 from the Qing (1644-1911).

The Forbidden City has been operated as a national museum since 1925 and the treasures are supposed to belong to the Chinese people as part of their national heritage. Offense comes easily.

The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and survived wars, revolution, fires, and ...

How China's Forbidden City treasures were saved during 1930s war with Japan A book recounts how precious works of art thousands of years old were taken to safety as Japan began its invasion of ...

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 of the Hundred Years’ War and yet to discover ...

The Forbidden City and Cinema as a Guiding Light Feature in Beijing Film Festival Poster. The creation from Huo Tingxiao, art director on such movies as ‘Farewell My Concubine,’ features an ...

Yet the Forbidden City survived waves of drastic alterations made to Beijing’s architectural layout in the 1950s and 60s, in spite of Communist Party leader Mao Zedong’s disdain for old ...