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The Palace Museum in Beijing, which was called the Forbidden City, is an important repository of China's 5,000-year-old civilization and traditional Chinese culture. The establishment of the ...

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Photo: Courtesy of the committee on 20th-century architectural heritage affiliated with the Chinese Cultural Relics Society The highly anticipated new branch of Beijing's iconic Palace Museum is ...

In the early 1930s, before Japanese forces swept across China, Palace Museum authorities packed up many pieces - including imperial thrones - and moved them out of Beijing to other cities.

A restorer works on the mechanism of a antique clock in a workshop on the sprawling compound of the Forbidden City also known as the Palace Museum in Beijing, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han ...

At the back of Longevity Hill, surrounded by green trees, at Beijing's Summer Palace there is a colorful pagoda made of glazed components. It was built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the ...