In a quiet section of the suburbs of Beijing to the northwest of Qinghua University, there once stood a complex of gardens known as the Yuanmingyuan. Built in the Qing Dynasty, this "garden of ...

Contents: It was once so lovely here. Everything that a near-superhuman people could imagine was gathered here at Yuanmingyuan. It was a wonderland, like the legendary palace on the moon that lies ...

In 1900 a scholar jumped in a Beijing well out of shame. A palace consort died in a Forbidden City well too. Was she ...

As per CNN Style, during the peak of the Second Opium War in 1860, British and French troops climbed the 15-foot walls of Yuanmingyuan, also known as the "Gardens of Perfect Brightness," in Beijing - ...

SYNOPSIS Towards the end of 1989 several artists moved to an area near the ruins of Yuanmingyuan the former Beijing Summer Palace Farewell Yuanmingyuan documents the trials and tribulations of the ...

Also known as Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace was built in the 1700s and has been described as the country's most beautiful palace. The massive palace grounds and its buildings were looted of ...

In 2005 I reported about the controversy caused by waterproofing of the local lakebed in Yuanmingyuan Park(Old Summer Palace) in Beijing. On reading the piece, Pan immediately suspended the project ...

Following a hotly contested U.S. election that reverberated across Chinese social media, drawing hundreds of millions of views on Weibo and birthing myriad memes, many Chinese academics and ...

He cited the case of the Yuanmingyuan's bronze zodiac heads, whose value skyrocketed from $1,500 in 1985 to 14 million euros in 2009 due to high demand from Chinese collectors. The 1970 Convention ...

The Bread Wanderland on the Bund is back, and it's bigger and dough-ier than ever.

The Temple of Heaven Park, the Summer Palace and Yuanmingyuan, also known as the Old Summer Palace, were the most popular destinations, hosting 950,900, 940,700 and 628,400 visits, respectively ...