Zhu Di claimed the throne for himself, becoming known as the Yongle Emperor and establishing Beijing as the national capital. There he built an imperial palace to dwarf that of his predecessor to ...

It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty that ruled China, before it expanded its power to the centre of the country and moved the capital to Beijing. This ...

Nearly any person you speak to has heard of Beijing’s most famous site — the Great Wall of China. However, Beijing is an intriguing city for many other reasons. Ancient temples stand side-by-side with ...

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BEIJING, China -- In Beijing's Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China's Ming and ... which sought to grind out all vestiges of China's imperial past. With the abandonment in recent ...

China's Imperial Palace, together with Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in UK, The White House in US and the Kremlin Palace in Russia, are known as the top 5 palaces in the would ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the magnificent Summer Palace in Beijing with this stunning ... a masterpiece of Chinese landscape design and imperial history. For more videos like this ...

On 30 January 2006, the World Heritage Centre received a comprehensive Report on the Conservation Status of the World Cultural Heritage properties of the Imperial Palace in Beijing, the Temple of ...

Zhu Di claimed the throne for himself, becoming known as the Yongle Emperor and establishing Beijing as the national capital. There he built an imperial palace to dwarf that of his predecessor to ...

BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming ... to grind out all vestiges of China’s imperial past. With the abandonment in recent years ...