Fly over Beijing’s iconic Forbidden City with this breathtaking drone footage. Experience the vast imperial palace complex, with its intricate rooftops, grand courtyards, and centuries-old ...

Fly over Beijing’s iconic Forbidden City with this breathtaking drone footage. Experience the vast imperial palace complex, with its intricate rooftops, grand courtyards, and centuries-old ...

The froth over Starbucks at Beijing's 587-year-old Forbidden City has highlighted Chinese sensitivity about cultural symbols and unease over an influx of foreign pop culture.. Starbucks closed the ...

Go inside China's Forbidden City—domain of the emperor and his court for nearly 500 years. Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to ...

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) gathered together and asked themselves: What would happen to ...

BEIJING - Under a cerulean Beijing sky, dozens of international journalists, including myself, visited the Forbidden City— a UNESCO world heritage site and China’s crown jewel of imperial history.

In a historic move, composer and conductor Tan Dun has become the first musician to gather sound materials at the Palace Museum in Beijing for "The Sound of The Forbidden City", a groundbreaking ...

The new Chinese exhibition, which will be installed in the Forbidden City’s centuries-old Hall of Literary Brilliance, is a follow up of sorts to the 2014 Versailles show, China at Versailles ...

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 ...

It’s been a century since China’s last emperor was evicted from Beijing’s Forbidden City. A historian with rare access to the palace’s sealed archives lifts the lid on some of its culinary ...

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 ...

(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 America, China’s Ming ...