My family went to the Forbidden City, Beijing, China, in December 2014. It is one of the most famous palaces in the world.

After six centuries of fires, wars and power struggles, the Forbidden City still stands at Beijing’s physical and symbolic center.

China opened a website about the Palace Museum-- the famous imperial Forbidden City -- in Beijing, Monday, using modern digital technologies to preserve its ancient art. The website will give an ...

Located in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City was home to the emperors of China for nearly 500 years, during China's final two imperial dynasties, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

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.

Almost a century after China's Forbidden City opened its doors to the outside world, many secrets remain -- including how and what the early imperial families ate behind these walls.

BEIJING - Under a cerulean Beijing sky, dozens of international journalists, including myself, visited the Forbidden City— a UNESCO world heritage site and China’s crown jewel of imperial history.

“It is like the ceiling of a building, to which skilled craftsmen in ancient China added exquisite carvings, paintings, and patterns,” read the fest notes about the poster.

He spoke with NPR about how he first heard of those who rescued the Forbidden City's antiquities, and reflected on China's absence from Western understanding of the history of the Second World War.