the Grand Canal and the Forbidden City, located in Beijing. It took 15 years to build, using more than one million workers, and has almost 1,000 buildings. Art flourished during the Ming Dynasty ...

The Forbidden City would be the home and seat of power for 24 rulers—14 from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and 10 from the Qing (1644-1911). When the Manchu Qing emperors overthrew the Ming ...

Hundreds of tiles have fallen from the roof of a centuries old tower in China's Anhui province, smashing to the ground near ...

The Forbidden City, located in the centre of Beijing is the supreme ... They illustrate the grandeur of the imperial institution from the Qing Dynasty to the earlier Ming and Yuan dynasties, as well ...

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 Dynasty ...

The roof of a Ming Dynasty tower dating back more than 600 years collapsed in a huge pile of rubble in China's Fengyang county on Monday (19 May). Eyewitness footage showed part of the historic ...

He was born in 1470, the third son of Emperor Chenghua, the eighth of the Ming Dynasty, and his mother ... in quarters formerly occupied by Empress Wu in the gardens of the Forbidden City. Wu had been ...

Part 1 of a two-part examination of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the ancient Chinese imperial palace. Included: its construction during the Ming Dynasty; its flaws; a fire that foreshadowed the ...