During the Ming Dynasty, the Hall of Heavenly Favor (Chengqiangong ... This section of the Forbidden City has an interesting history. Emperor Kangxi ordered construction of the Hall of Ultimate ...

British academic and diplomat Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874–1938) published Twilight in the Forbidden City in 1934. The work is a memoir of Johnston's time in Beijing between 1919 and 1924, at the ...

A Ming dynasty plate with dragon design ... The catalogue tells us that “The Forbidden City was not just a palace where the emperor and his attendants lived, nor was it simply the administrative ...

A recent study by Chinese researchers has found that the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, one of the most important dynasties in Chinese history, may have been triggered by the Wanli megadrought ...