The palace complex is aligned north-south ... (Zheng He, sponsored by emperor Yongle, was China's greatest naval explorer.) Within Chinese imperial tradition, the emperor was considered the ...

Inside their vast palace, China’s emperors were unassailable ... Life in the Forbidden City” is heavily based on Qianlong Emperor’s daily rituals – meals included.

Qin Shi Huang may have conquered China with his army—believed to ... Throughout recorded Chinese history, the first emperor’s Epang Palace—located on the Wei River, south of ancient Xianyang ...

These statues were unlike anything ever uncovered before in China. And that raises ... describes a time of deadly palace intrigue: One of the emperor’s many sons conspired with the chief eunuch ...

Apothecary Diaries is a fantastic anime that follows Maomao, a young apothecary that makes a name for herself in the inner palace due to her obsession with poison and her ability to solve mysteries ...

As the Chinese empire is rising again, so too is a new emperor. China ... government’s leadership compound in Beijing, Zhongnanhai, more and more resembles an imperial palace where royal ...

It was Louis XIV who inaugurated the Bourbon kings’ connection to China in 1685 ... with the Palace Museum’s undated Qing-era Portrait of Emperor Kangxi in Court Robes. The French monarchs ...