BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams of visitors wearing historical ...

Beijing Postcards, an unusual store in Yangmeizhu Byway, Beijing's Dashilar area, is a gallery of the capital's history. A visit to the bustling Qianmen Street in downtown Beijing might lead you to a ...

c) Lack of management mechanism (no legislation for protective buffer zone). On 30 January 2006, the World Heritage Centre received a comprehensive Report on the Conservation Status of the World ...

After two days visiting some of the iconic sights of Beijing, including the Forbidden City and Great Wall, our Imperial Tours fam trip spent a final half day visiting the famous Summer Palace in the ...

"Camel trains arriving at a city gate; the distinctive architecture of the Forbidden City, its pagodas, imperial buildings and temples; Manchu fashion, the Empress Dowager and the child emperor Puyi; ...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), ...

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 complex ...

Beijing plans to rebuild a 230-year-old Tuanhe Imperial Palace, the largest temporary imperial dwelling in the city. Located in the southern outskirts of the capital, the palace was built in 1772 ...

When the American writer David Kidd arrived in Beijing in 1981, having not seen China’s capital for three decades, he found the city almost unrecognizable. The fabled city walls were gone; its temples ...

BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams of visitors wearing historical ...