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 ...

(CNN) — The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. In 1420, while Europe was in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War and yet to discover America, China’s Ming Dynasty ...

Beijing’s Forbidden City reopens the restored Hall of Mental Cultivation after a decade-long conservation project.

Donald Trump will receive an honor in Beijing not granted to any US President since the founding of the People's Republic of China: official dinner inside the Forbidden City. Donald Trump will receive ...

BEIJING--Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous Forbidden City, through a three dimensional re-creation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an ...

In the heart of Beijing lies the largest palace in the world, The Forbidden City. For five hundred years, it served as the home of the almighty Emperors of China along with their wives, concubines, ...

VIENNA, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition featuring art from China's Forbidden City opened on Tuesday at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, exploring the parallels and contrasts between East and West ...

Editor’s Note: Jonathan Chatwin is the author of “Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China” and “The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future.” Above Beijing’s imperial center ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump went around and over the "Great Firewall" of China in a late-night tweet in Beijing as he thanked his hosts for a rare tour of the Forbidden City and a ...

BEIJING — 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 ...

Probably Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining, 1688–1766) and other court painters, “Consort of the Qianlong emperor and the future Jiaqing emperor in his boyhood” (1760s), painting originally mounted ...