T he Cold Palace, an enigmatic section of the Forbidden City, offers a compelling glimpse into the darker aspects of imperial ...

In 1900 a scholar jumped in a Beijing well out of shame. A palace consort died in a Forbidden City well too. Was she ...

British academic and diplomat Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874–1938) published Twilight in the Forbidden City in 1934. The work is a memoir of Johnston's time in Beijing between 1919 and 1924, at the ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...

Four foreign fashion designers have been denied entry to Beijing’s Forbidden City for wearing “dark and strange” clothes. The four – Rick Owens and Michele Lamy, as well as Hannah Rose ...

When an ordinary girl Rain picks up a mysterious gem in the Forbidden City, she accidentally opens a portal and wanders into the World of Mythic Monsters, a parallel realm where monsters, gods and ...

Social media user Lu Xiaobao posted photos of herself, a friend and her car in the empty Forbidden City in Beijing. Although she has since deleted them, they quickly went viral and people urged ...

Written by Maria-Cristina Florian Published on October 17, 2024 In celebration of Urban October, a month dedicated to recognizing the significance of innovative urban spaces, this curated ...

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Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong), also known as the Forbidden City as it was the private dwelling of the Ming and Qing emperors, their huge families and 70,000 eunuchs.

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, had listed a dozen contemporary hymns to be “forbidden” ...