BEIJING - Under a cerulean Beijing sky, dozens of international journalists, including myself, visited the Forbidden City— a ...

It was constructed during the Ming Dynasty in the early 15th century and served as the imperial palace for over 500 years, housing 24 emperors of ... imperial court. The Forbidden City also houses an ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

By James Amoh Junior, GNA Special Correspondent in Beijin, ChinaBeijing, April 23, GNA – The majestic Great Wall of China, is ...

Constructed over a period of 2,000 years, the stone sentry actually consists of many great walls, some dating back to the fifth century B.C. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, ordered ...

The Forbidden City located at the heart of Beijing is one of China’s most well-preserved historical ... the trees would overshadow the majesty of the area. The third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ...

An important part of the library's holdings is the Wenyuange (Pavilion of Literary Profundity) collection of the Ming emperors ... of Chinese history. Binding range from the ancient "butterfly ...

In the past four decades it has turned out a wide range of exquisite jade objects for sale around the city. Historically speaking, the earliest pieces of Chinese ... a Tang Dynasty emperor had ...

The Forbidden City is a palace complex commissioned in 1406 by Yongle the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The famous place marks the ... Xian’s Terracotta Warriors is what ancient China is known for.

The Qiandao lake, after all, was a product of the flooding of the ancient city ... China's Ming dynasty while there is also architecture from their successors the Qing, the final dynasty of ...

fleet admiral , and court eunuch during China’s early Ming Dynasty. Born as Ma He or Ma Sanbao into a Muslim family in 1371, he later adopted the surname Zheng conferred by the Yongle Emperor. He ...