Nov. 13, 2008 — -- Millions of people come to the Forbidden City every year ... of field projects at the World Monuments Fund. "The wallpaper was peeling off the wall. The silk was deteriorating.

Known as the "Forbidden ... in the Forbidden City. This grand staircase leads to the upper floor of the main building of the base. Many of the walls, stripped of their wallpaper or cracking ...

He took part in the huge effort to catalogue the Forbidden City's art collections in 1924-25. He helped establish the Palace Museum in Peking in 1925 and became its director — reluctantly — in ...

It will mark the first time a foreign nation has brought its contemporary art to the Forbidden City—and that’s just one small part of “Deutschland 8: German Art in China,” a vast ...