Most women in the Forbidden City were employed as maids and servants, but there was also a select group of concubines whose task was to bear children for the emperor. Those who gave birth to male ...

Built by a million workers, the Forbidden City is the world's most magnificent palace. Now, new research has uncovered the terrible truth about its creation - and how an affair between a concubine ...

Exploring there The Forbidden City limits the daily number of visitors to 80,000. You can buy tickets online at various outlets. Don't forget to bring your passport, an umbrella and a water bottle.

Cixi entered the Forbidden City as a concubine in 1851, at age 16, and delivered Emperor Xianfeng his only male heir five years later, Seagrave writes. After Xianfeng died in 1861, ...

BEIJING — At China’s five century old Forbidden City in the heart of Beijing, 16 million visitors a year navigate through its numerous halls and pavilions with red walls and yellow-glazed roof ...

At 8 am in Beijing's Forbidden City, Wang Youliang pushes open the seven securely fastened gates to his workplace. As each door opens, he lets out a loud cry.

The Forbidden City and Cinema as a Guiding Light Feature in Beijing Film Festival Poster. The creation from Huo Tingxiao, art director on such movies as ‘Farewell My Concubine,’ features an ...

The Forbidden City (Chinese name: Gugong ‘Former Palace’) was the palatial heart of China. It is an imperial palace complex of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912) in Beijing, China.

All women living in imperial China’s Forbidden City were carefully sequestered in quarters deep inside the palace. Most were employed as maids and servants, but there was also a select… ...