Only in the vast imperial palace complex of the Forbidden City “could I imagine that the ... beleaguered international residents, the ruling Empress Dowager, who had supported the Boxers ...

A pavilion in Cining Gong garden in the Palace Museum.[Photo by Wang Kaihao/China Daily] In the mid-19th century the empire's power declined sharply, and empress dowagers moved out of the palace ...

Inside the Forbidden City, within a lab-like workshop, restorers are undertaking a meticulous effort to preserve the sprawling palace's historical ... a birthday gift to Empress Dowager Cixi ...

And both Zhao and the experts at Hong Kong Palace Museum agree that dining inside the Forbidden City wasn’t as lavish ... ate – was closely connected to Empress Dowager Cixi – a former ...

Beijing’s Palace Museum, located in the heart of the Forbidden City, contains the world’s largest collection of Chinese art, spanning nearly 5,000 years of history. Now, more than 900 of those ...

BEIJING (AP) — 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 analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray ...

Only in the vast imperial palace complex of the Forbidden City “could I imagine that the ... beleaguered international residents, the ruling Empress Dowager, who had supported the Boxers ...

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 analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray ...