The palace complex is aligned north-south ... (Zheng He, sponsored by emperor Yongle, was China's greatest naval explorer.) Within Chinese imperial tradition, the emperor was considered the ...

Inside their vast palace, China’s emperors were unassailable ... Life in the Forbidden City” is heavily based on Qianlong Emperor’s daily rituals – meals included.

Qin Shi Huang may have conquered China with his army—believed to ... Throughout recorded Chinese history, the first emperor’s Epang Palace—located on the Wei River, south of ancient Xianyang ...

HONG KONG — A luxury watch that belonged to China’s last emperor has sold for a record ... though he continued living in the palace complex for years. In the 1930s, Puyi was appointed puppet ...

As the Chinese empire is rising again, so too is a new emperor. China ... government’s leadership compound in Beijing, Zhongnanhai, more and more resembles an imperial palace where royal ...

These statues were unlike anything ever uncovered before in China. And that raises ... describes a time of deadly palace intrigue: One of the emperor’s many sons conspired with the chief eunuch ...

TAIPEI, May 7 (Reuters) - Taiwan's National Palace Museum, home to one of the world's biggest collections of imperial Chinese treasures, does not plan any joint events with China for its 100th ...