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 poster for the 15th edition of the Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) has some inspirations and messages that may lead you to take a closer look. Designed by Huo Tingxiao, vice ...

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 ...

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 ...

A book recounts how precious works of art thousands of years old were taken to safety as Japan began its invasion of China in the 1930s — a part of China's history largely unknown outside Asia.

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...

Six travel agencies in Beijing were suspended for scalping tickets to the Forbidden City on Wednesday. This marks the first major enforcement action after the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism ...

China’s most important historic landmark, the Forbidden City, will turn off its lights for WWF’s Earth Hour at 8.30pm on Saturday March 27th in the country’s capital of Beijing. The Forbidden City ...

A professor of history at Peking University, Ouyang set out to recover the history of Beijing as a global city, including the daily lives, correspondences, and observations of its Western residents.