In 2007, journalist Vanessa Hua saw a documentary about China that included images of former leader Chairman Mao Zedong surrounded ... it into a book. In “Forbidden City,” we meet Mei; she ...

Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China. During the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Mao ordered Red Guards posted at this gate. In 1987, the Forbidden City was named part ...

On the eve of Japan's invasion of China in the early 1930s, a group of museum curators at the Forbidden City in Peking ... Later, in 1948, Mao Zedong's victorious Communist Party was on the ...

Deep below China's bustling heart lies a dank network of secret tunnels and purpose-built rooms that Chairman Mao Zedong once ... is ten minutes away, the Forbidden City, and the Temple of Heaven.

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 ...

Led by Ma Heng, director of the Palace Museum in Beijing’s (then Peking) Forbidden City, the curators packed and shipped nearly 17,000 cases of objects, including a 10th-century scroll depicting ...

"The bottom layer had shifted and loosened to the point where it was in a pulverised state," said Sun Ou, who restores inlaid lacquer artworks at the Forbidden ... defeated by Mao Zedong's ...

Just like how young Mao Zedong aspired to save the country and ... Photo: Courtesy of Beijing Forbidden City Film Company It will be broadcast on December 25, 2023 on the eve of Chairman Mao's ...

The chairman Mao Zedong Memorial Hall stands on the former sits of Zhonghuamen Gate at the southern end of Tian'anmen Square between the Monument to the People's Heroes and Zhengyangmen Gate.