Blog Tag - Forbidden City
It sometimes seems like the dominant color in Beijing is “Socialist Taupe.” The streets. The bricks. The roads. Getting away from the gray and the...
Beijing has taken a concrete step forward in its application to list the city’s so-called Central Axis as a UNESCO World Heritage Site by publishing...
Beijing is host to a vibrant mix of old and new, making it the kind of place that begets more questions every time we go in search of answers and...
In Beijing Pics of the Week, our in-house photographer and lao Beijinger Uni You presents a selection of his photographs from around the capital over...
Ever since Beijing -- actually back then it was called Yanjing -- was chosen as the capital of the Jin Dynasty, the city has been a bustling...
In case you were wondering where a graduate degree could take you, it can certainly get you places, one of them being in the employ of the Forbidden...
The Forbidden City is perhaps Beijing’s most famous urban landmark. Each year, millions of tourists queue up for a chance to walk the corridors and...
Every Beijinger knows that the Forbidden City, also called the Palace Museum, is the palace at the heart of the capital. A new book, Forbidden City:...
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our 12-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
Sometimes it takes a new, smaller perspective to fully appreciate the complexity of objects. While that has been one of the biggest draws of Danish...
The Forbidden City turns 600 this year. Over one million laborers toiled 14 years to build the palace for the Yongle Emperor [r. 1402-1424] of the...
[Update May 7, 2pm] Foreigners cannot currently enter the National Museum or the Capital Museum because of an oversight with the reservation systems...
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this? Trending in Beijing is a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, ...
The Forbidden City should be fascinating for children. It’s a palace where princesses dreamed and schemed for love, emperors and courtiers plotted...
Late on Friday, Beijing was treated to its first snowfall of the winter, causing an equal amount of traffic chaos and pavement-side selfie wonderment...