purchasing a map which doubles as a souvenir. Audio guide rentals are another option. You must enter the Forbidden City through the Meridian Gate, which is easily reached via the Tian'an men East ...

Inside the Forbidden City, within a lab-like workshop ... Their work also extends to ornate antique clocks, gifts from early European visitors to China's emperors. These intricate timepieces, now ...

BEIJING (AP) — It's highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is ... former home of China’s emperors ...