About 150 restorers are fusing scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch and revive Forbidden City ...

How restorers are unlocking the secrets of the relics in China’s Forbidden City - Scientific analysis and traditional ...

The Palace Museum was established in 1925 by the then ruling Republic of China government, after the last emperor of China, Pu Yi, and his household were evicted. In the decades that followed ...

where the headquarters of the Chinese government is located today). The emperors took their daily meals in Yangxin Hall (the Hall of Mental Cultivation), Chonghua Palace (the Hall of Double Glory ...

Efforts to preserve and display China’s imperial treasures highlight President Xi’s focus on cultural heritage.

Twice before has he been proclaimed Emperor of China. The first time was when he ... As a Japanese puppet he dares not leave his palace unguarded, so he rides around and around his garden compound ...

Tasty Hotpot Palace operates two restaurants in Tsim Sha Tsui, transporting diners to the ancient world of imperial China ...

It's highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing's Forbidden City is analysed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that ...

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 ...