Known as the Forbidden City, it served as the symbolic ... Imperial founderThird ruler of the Ming dynasty, the Yongle emperor moved the Chinese capital from Nanjing to Beijing in 1403.

Memphis Mayor Paul Young and several other city leaders responded Monday ... Roof of historic Ming Dynasty tower collapses in China Billionaire Ray Dalio raises alarm over China, says Trump ...

The duo will have transversed 14,000km, travelling through China, Nepal and India. But speaking to Metro, they reveal the one place they’re desperate to return to — and where they’re happy to never ...

Nestled within Hangzhou's Xixi National Wetland Park, Wujiawan Ancient Village is home to 60 restored buildings from the Ming ...

In September 2013, he captured the Wanshou Palace area — then a crumbling warren of cheap clothing stalls in Jiangxi province ...

China’s demand for gold today hearkens back to the 16th century, when Chinese demand for silver ushered in the world’s first ...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing ... testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Imperial Palace of the Qing ...

In Yixing, a city renowned as China’s pottery hub located in Jiangsu province, an age-old tradition endures through the continuous operation of the Q ...

The ruins of Zhouqiao Bridge of the ancient capital of ... axis of the imperial city of Kaifeng, then called Dongjing — and the Bianhe River section of the Grand Canal, the bridge was built between ...

[Photo by Elyar Najmehchi for chinadaily.com.cn] Fuzhou, capital of southeastern ... is also known as the “City of Banyans”, because of the numerous banyan trees planted there since the Song Dynasty ...

Many readers have surely visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. There, a simple chest is preserved—made of dark, somewhat ...