The Hall of Supreme Harmony, the largest building in the Forbidden City, contains an enormous throne room, where Qianlong was crowned emperor in 1736. During his 63-year reign, the longest in Chinese ...

To the Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic was cut off. Troops with fixed bayonets lined the road. At ...

How restorers are unlocking the secrets of the relics in China’s Forbidden City - Scientific analysis and traditional ...

Each of the four occupied a separate and distinctly decorated throne room located on one of the four sides of a central core, each facing outward towards one of the four points of the compass.

The scale model of the Forbidden City is one of the Oakland exhibition's most absorbing items. Not even the actual furniture of the throne room evokes so well the exalted position of the emperor ...

It is the most important and the biggest building in the Forbidden City. There is a massive throne in the middle of the room.

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 ...

The Empress Dowager Cixi Yu Xunling "Too much mystery surrounds the Forbidden City for us to write of its inmates with assured authority. Even when the facts are known, there are two or three ...

The lush opulence of China’s imperial rulers, once hidden in the Forbidden City, has reached the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Imperial robes of yellow satin, richly embroidered with dragons and ...

The author, who was tutor to the boy Emperor, gives a fascinating account of the checkered history of China since 1898 as seen from the palace. The story is continued to the time of the Emperor's ...