Forbidden City Blues. 2 minute read. By TIME Staff. October 29, 2007 12:51 AM EDT. I t rained heavily Saturday and the smog vanished and was replaced by glorious, clear blue skies and sunshine.

The Forbidden City and Cinema as a Guiding Light Feature in Beijing Film Festival Poster. The creation from Huo Tingxiao, art director on such movies as ‘Farewell My Concubine,’ features an ...

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 ...

An elaborate antique clock is displayed Feb. 21 on the sprawling compound of the Forbidden City also known as the Palace Museum in Beijing. (Photos by Ng Han Guan/Associated Press) Photo Gallery ...

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Beijing — It's highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray ...

A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive the more than 1.8 million relics in the collection of Beijing's ...