c) Lack of management mechanism (no legislation for protective buffer zone). On 30 January 2006, the World Heritage Centre received a comprehensive Report on the Conservation Status of the World ...
On a breezy Monday afternoon, a crowd of dignitaries gathered at the foot of the steps leading up to the tower of Wumen Gate, one of the majestic galleries of Beijing’s Palace Museum, located at the ...
BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams of visitors wearing historical ...
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The opulent architecture of China’s Forbidden City
The Forbidden City not only witnessed the rise and fall of dynasties but also served as a veritable ground of palace ...
Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive complex ...
Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to most of imperial China's people, who could only imagine the grandeur beyond the gates. Hall of ...
As the world watched in horror at pictures of the Notre Dame burning, some in China saw another story in the flames: that of retribution. “I might be sympathetic to refugees in Lebanon, but the blaze ...
In 1967, not long after the start of the Cultural Revolution, an influential literary critic named Yao Wenyuan published an essay about one of his rivals, titled “On the Two-Faced ...
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