I fell in love with the Forbidden City that long-ago day ... among so much else, the Gate of Heavenly Peace, where the chairman's portrait still hangs. Paul Raffaele, a frequent contributor ...

Beijing’s Forbidden City ... gaze of Mao Zedong’s portrait, hundreds of tourists hold up selfie sticks, snapping pictures as they queue to pass through The Gate of Heavenly Peace, aka ...

The Gate of Heavenly Peace, although outside the Forbidden City’s ticketed area, is part of the complex, and is now hung with a portrait of Mao Zedong, who declared the People’s Republic from ...

Between the square and the gate, old archways were torn down, and a broad highway was built in their place. There is no single reason why the Forbidden City escaped this period of razing and ...

The Cining Palace is one of four areas of the Palace Museum to be opened to the public on Saturday to mark the 90th anniversary of the landmark's founding. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Four new areas of ...

The armor and the throne are part of a new exhibit titled ``Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign ... attempts to create a unified portrait of a complex man: military strategist ...

The Forbidden ... Gate, where he pored over centuries-old imperial documents, which he believes were locked away in the 1990s. Slowly, he began to build up a picture of how dining in the Forbidden ...

This figure is equal to the dimensions of the Meridian Gate, or the southern entry to Beijing's Forbidden City, which visitors can see today. "Jinglong Gate is the largest and highest-level city ...

Between the square and the gate, old archways were torn down, and a broad highway was built in their place. There is no single reason why the Forbidden City escaped this period of razing and ...