It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty that ruled China, before it expanded its power to the centre of the country and moved the capital to Beijing. This ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace ... Tiananmen Square at the epicenter of Beijing. Beyond its towering ...

The story of Yanxi Palace, a drama about life in imperial China ... wanting to control the message." Beijing wants Chinese culture to be promoted outside of China but showing the values that ...

A newly translated book explores how international residents have shaped and recorded life in China’s ancient capital for ...

The present-day Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, particularly around the Kunlun Mountains, is famed for its jade production.

Imperial meals in the Qing Palace were dominated by the ... so the raw materials generally came from around Beijing, Mongolia, and Northeast China. A few ingredients also came from other parts ...

Rick Owens, along with his wife Michele Lamy and two other designers, were denied entry into China's Forbidden City, an ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, ...

A visitor is seen at the exhibition titled "Jade from the Kunlun Mountains: Special Exhibition on Hetian Jade Culture in the ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...