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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

There is the Summer Palace, a massive imperial garden built in 1750. And of course, on the outskirts of Beijing, there is the Great Wall of China. For those who wish to glimpse the city's past in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...