An exhibition showcasing 64 archives of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) concerning his wishes for Chinese ...

Within the Forbidden City the emperor’s meals were divided into two categories: The regular meals he took every day and his large banquets and occasional feasts. In its early years, the Qing ...

The Last Emperor tells the unlikely, but amazingly true story of Pu Yi, who, in 1908, at the tender age of 3, was taken from ...

But someone was missing. Consort Zhen, the young emperor's favourite consort, lay dead in a well within the Forbidden City. The official version of her death is contained in Cixi's edict issued ...

In the Qing Dynasty, the only people who lived in the Forbidden City are the Emperor's concubines, their maids, the eunuchs and the Emperor himself. Lee Lien Ying is an eunuch who enters the ...

the emperor has a new wife as well - Madame Liu! As this strange new family unit is being constructed, poor Li Zhenfei has been confined to the forbidden palace, condemned to never see or speak to ...

The Temple of Heaven is a temple of the Taoist religion, situated south of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Built between 1406 and 1420, emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties prayed here to the ...