Between the square and the gate, old archways were torn ... Any ambivalence once felt by China’s communist rulers towards the Forbidden City has now been replaced by an eagerness to emphasize ...

Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China. During the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Mao ordered Red Guards posted at this gate. In 1987, the Forbidden City was named part ...

Despite Zhu Di’s bad fortune the Forbidden City continued to be used by China’s emperors in both good times and bad. The Meridian Gate, which towers as high as 125 feet (38 meters), is located ...

Audio guide rentals are another option. You must enter the Forbidden City through the Meridian Gate, which is easily reached via the Tian'an men East or Tian'an men West subway stops. The palace ...

The Forbidden City was once one of the most ... called the First Historical Archives of China, in the old palace’s Xihuamen, or West Prosperity Gate, where he pored over centuries-old imperial ...

Nearly any person you speak to has heard of Beijing’s most famous site — the Great Wall of China. However, Beijing is an ...

The gate was named Xinhuamen ... it is probably more appropriate to describe it as a ‘New Forbidden City’ for China’s ruling elite rather than a place with a personal political resonance ...

On the eve of Japan's invasion of China in the early 1930s, a group of museum curators at the Forbidden City in Peking (now Beijing) gathered together and asked themselves: What would happen to ...

As I wandered the palace grounds, the juxtaposition of ancient architecture against Beijing’s skyline—a forest of glass and steel—epitomized China’s dynamic balance between tradition and progress. The ...