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 ...

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The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and survived wars, revolution, fires, and ...

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Fire destroyed several buildings in the extreme northeast corner of the ” Forbidden City” section of Peking, but did no damage to the old Imperial Palace, present residence of the Boy Emperor ...

By VINCENT THIAN BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams of ...

Now a major tourist site in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City is the name that was given to the sprawling compound by foreigners in imperial times because entry was forbidden to most outsiders.

Beijing: Chinese researchers have discovered foundations of over 600-year-old buildings that would help them in understanding the previous dynasties' history and layout of the Forbidden City ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A coffee shop has opened at the heart of the Forbidden City, the former Chinese imperial palace, replacing a controversial Starbucks cafe that was forced out by public protest ...

Beijing's Forbidden City may close down its Starbucks in the face of growing protests that the presence of a U.S. coffee shop in the former imperial palace is an insult to Chinese culture, a ...