Zhongnanhai is often thought of as China’s equivalent to the White House, ... Li Zhisui, commented that (the complex’s) residents were always under surveillance,” Aldrich said.

China News: NEW DELHI: Zhongnanhai, a serene and picturesque garden in Beijing, has a rich history that dates back to its origins as part of the imperial gardens.

Today, a new generation of China experts endeavor to do the same thing with respect to China’s rulers in Zhongnanhai (the principal office complex of China’s communist leaders) in Beijing.

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TOKYO -- The Zhongnanhai leadership complex in central Beijing, just west of the Tiananmen gate and home to the offices of the Chinese Communist Party President taps No. 4 Wang Yang and No. 7 Han ...

The above image of Xi Jinping, the president of China, is a screen grab from a video showing Xi's New Year's address to the nation (you can watch the entire video on Youku here). The image ...

Xi Jinping on March 4, 2024, in Beijing, China. A man was dragged away by Chinese police from the gate of the Zhongnanhai compound while trying to enter the seat of the Chinese government ...

It was the second time that Teslas had been displayed in Zhongnanhai. A year earlier, Mr. Musk had posted a photo of himself standing in front of Teslas in the Hall of Purple Light.

On April 25, 1999, 10,000 practitioners, many of them elderly, had held a silent demonstration outside Beijing’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound.

The first ruler to view Zhongnanhai as primarily a place to govern from, not simply relax in, was the Empress Dowager Cixi, who effectively controlled China for almost five decades from 1861.

The imperial gardens offering vistas of Zhongnanhai’s lakes have, today, been filled in with dozens of gray offices and meeting halls, many of which date to 1970s, when Zhongnanhai underwent ...