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

This is a human being who just walked away from the sealed "forbidden city", dragging with him a long and gray shadow that reflects his struggling out from the rural civilization as well as his ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong), also known as the Forbidden City as it was the private dwelling of the Ming and Qing emperors, their huge families and 70,000 eunuchs.