At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... An ancient site rooted in the heart of modern Beijing, the Forbidden City is one of China’s most famous attractions.

Known as the Forbidden City, it served as the symbolic ... moved the Chinese capital from Nanjing to Beijing in 1403. Album/Pictures from History/Universal Images Group The emperor’s private ...

Beijing back in the 1980s was still a city of bicycles ... of people already and tested by history.” One of the biggest misunderstandings about dining in the Forbidden City, she says, is the ...

Four foreign fashion designers have been denied entry to Beijing’s Forbidden City for wearing “dark ... for showing no respect for China’s history and culture. The group, some of whom ...

A professor of history at Peking University ... and other channels into Beijing and the Forbidden City. Sixth Tone: Is your research project over? Were there any subjects you regret not writing about?

On the eve of Japan's invasion of China in the early 1930s, a group of museum curators at the Forbidden City in Peking (now Beijing ... part of China's modern history — little known outside ...

The city of Beijing is planned on a north-south grid ... the Great Hall of the People to the west and the History Museum to the east. Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is where Chairman ...