Twice before has he been proclaimed Emperor of China ... He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei.

Even if you haven't read Johnston's 1934 memoir, Twilight in the Forbidden City, you might remember him being played by Peter O'Toole in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 film, The Last Emperor. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

This section of the Forbidden City has an interesting history. Emperor Kangxi ordered construction of the Hall of Ultimate Greatness in 1689. Kangxi's grandson, Qianlong, rebuilt the palace in ...

A conservator restores a cultural relic at the Palace Museum at the Forbidden City’s cultural protection ... after the last emperor of China, Pu Yi, and his household were evicted.

This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China ... He remembers his lavish youth in the Forbidden City, where he was afforded every luxury but unfortunately sheltered ...

The thin brush strokes and fine details will leave the viewer in awe. 3. “The Qianlong Emperor Enjoying the Lunar New Year” This painting depicts the Emperor enjoying the festivities of Lunar ...

who became China's last Godlike emperor aged three and then, deposed by revolution, had to learn to live as a gardener. Contrasting the splendour of the Forbidden City with the greyness of ...

Chinese treasures restored in the heart of Beijing In a workshop tucked away in Beijing's historic Forbidden City, a restorer hunched over a centuries-old figurine, using a cotton bud to delicately ...

Qin Shi Huang, the same Emperor who commanded the building of ... within an enormous structure built over the tomb. The Forbidden City was the home of the Emperors of China for over 500 years ...

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 ...