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 Palace Museum, former home to the Ming and Qing emperors, is also known as the Forbidden City (Zijincheng). There are four entrance gates: the Meridian Gate (Wumen) to the south, the Gate of ...

It’s a fine example of what China’s emperors, who collected hundreds ... lent by Beijing’s Palace Museum (formerly, the Forbidden City), and never seen in Britain, are now on display in ...

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 ...

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 exhibition will escort visitors through the 1700s, beginning at Guangzhou, China's trading harbour, and culminating in the emperors' residence at the Forbidden City, the UNESCO-recognised ...

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 ...