The painstaking work to restore ornate treasures amassed by Chinese emperors in centuries past has accelerated in the past decade amid President Xi Jinping's push to preserve China's heritage and ...

The Palace Museum in Beijing, which was called the Forbidden City, is an important repository of China's 5,000-year-old ...

Dragons were a symbol of luck and protection from natural disasters during the Tang Dynasty, archaeologists said.

In a workshop tucked away in Beijing's historic Forbidden City, a restorer hunched over a centuries-old figurine, using a ...

Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong), also known as the Forbidden City as it was the private ... south and north in Chinese’ or ‘how to ask for directions in Chinese’.

China’s annual major political event gets underway this week to endorse decisions already made by the all-powerful Chinese ...

Kung-fu all'amatriciana, echoes of Tarantino, nostalgia of 'Roman Holiday', action, love, cuisine, and revenge: all this is ...

"The bottom layer had shifted and loosened to the point where it was in a pulverised state," said Sun Ou, who restores inlaid lacquer artworks at the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace in ...

A conservator restores a cultural relic at the Palace Museum at the Forbidden City’s cultural protection ... to restore ornate treasures amassed by Chinese emperors in centuries past has ...