Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace ... Tiananmen Square at the epicenter of Beijing. Beyond its towering ...

It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty that ruled China, before it expanded its power to the centre of the country and moved the capital to Beijing. This ...

78 - World Heritage Properties in Beijing (China) (C 880 – C 881 – C 439 bis) 2006 30COM 7B.63 - State of Conservation (World Heritage Properties in Beijing) 2003 27COM 7B.43 - Imperial Palaces of the ...

BEIJING (AP) — It's highly technical work in what ... Their objective is to better preserve the artifacts at the sprawling imperial palace, the former home of China’s emperors and its seat of power ...

The large park stretches from Tian'anmen Rostrum in the south to the Forbidden City moat, and from the East Thousand Bu Corridor before the Imperial ... Beijing Working People' s Cultural Palace.

Imperial meals in the Qing Palace were dominated by the Manchu ... It was cold in Northeast China, nearly the same as in Beijing, and the transportation was easier. More importantly, the people ...

In a workshop tucked away in Beijing's historic Forbidden City ... The museum -- established in the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties after the last emperor Pu Yi and his household ...

Treasures from the Palace of Versailles ... between France and China, prompting a joint cultural bonanza that resulted in a similar exhibition held at the Palace Museum, Beijing, last year.

The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The ...

Great Wall; Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties; Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor; Mogao Caves; Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian (China) The Bureau was informed about the results of a World ...

It's highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from ... at the sprawling imperial palace, the former home of China's emperors and its ...