Explore 500 years of China's imperial history at the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site once home to 24 Ming and ...

When Wanrong became the Empress of China, she was already ruling over a ghost land. In a matter of months, her country ...

The Forbidden City was China's royal palace from 1420 to 1911 during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. The year after China's last emperor, Puyi, left the royal residence in ...

The museum – established in the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties after the last emperor Pu Yi and his household were evicted from the Forbidden City – celebrates its 100th ...

Contrasting the splendour of the Forbidden City with the greyness of Communism, it almost gets lost in surfaces, but Peter O'Toole excels as Pu Yi's tutor Bertolucci’s epic tracing the life of ...

OPENS MARCH 12, CERT 15, 218 MINS The Last Emperor tells the story of Pu Yi, installed as Lord Of Ten ... walled up in the Forbidden City, to a playboy existence in Tientsin, reinstatement as ...

Blinking, spectacled Henry Pu Yi was about to become Manchu Emperor ... He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs ...

The museum — established in the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties after the last emperor Pu Yi and his household were evicted from the Forbidden City — celebrates its 100th ...

A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive ...