All women living in the Forbidden City were carefully sequestered in the imperial quarters deep inside the palace ... but there was also a select group of concubines whose task was to bear ...

The Forbidden City was once one ... ruler was moving into his new home in the center of Beijing and beginning to strengthen his grip on an expanding empire. Inside their vast palace, China ...

Imagine the soft tread of concubines ... We're in the Forbidden City, which fronts onto Tianamen Square in the heart of Beijing. Since its completion in 1420, it's been home to 24 emperors ...

Aptly named and built with strict adherence to feng shui, the walled residence was home to majestic halls, tranquil gardens and political plots galore. Today the Forbidden City sits inside ...

All women living in imperial China’s Forbidden City were carefully sequestered in quarters deep inside the palace. Most were employed as maids and servants, but there was also a select group of ...

T he 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 ...

To the Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic ... be returned to his old home. A faction in the Japanese ...