How the stone, timber, symmetry and sheer size of a 600-year-old complex made Beijing's imperial kingdom feel almost divine I don't "do" Beijing the way I do other cities. Beijing doesn't invite ...

In the heart of modern Beijing stands the Forbidden City - the largest palace complex on Earth and the former seat of power for 24 Chinese emperors across nearly five centuries. Built in the early ...

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 diffraction machine that ...

In China, there is a palace so huge that it has nearly 9,000 rooms, covers an area bigger than 100 football fields, and was completely off-limits to ordinary people for almost 500 years. Sounds like ...

BEIJING, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Beijing's Forbidden City may close down its Starbucks in the face of growing protests that the presence of a U.S. coffee shop in the former imperial palace is an insult to ...

Beijing, China- China’s most important historic landmark, the Forbidden City, will turn off its lights for WWF’s Earth Hour at 8.30pm on Saturday March 27th in the country’s capital of Beijing.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced today that the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will be the first art museum in the country to have an extensive collaboration project with the Palace Museum in Bejing.

BEIJING (Reuters) - As China ushers in the Lunar Year of the Dog, hundreds of millions of Chinese are travelling to their hometowns to spend the week-long national holiday with their families. But for ...