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 ...

After two days visiting some of the iconic sights of Beijing, including the Forbidden City and Great Wall, our Imperial Tours fam trip spent a final half day visiting the famous Summer Palace in the ...

The horse head was part of a fountain at the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, which was largely destroyed by Anglo-French troops in 1860. A bronze horse’s head on display in the Old Summer Palace on ...

Glide over the magnificent Summer Palace in Beijing with stunning drone footage showcasing its sprawling gardens, serene ...

The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The ...

The Imperial Garden of the Qing Dynasty, formerly known as the Qingyi Garden, was built in the Qing Emperor Qianlong period when the national power was strong. It was destroyed by the British and ...

The patterns of the heists were evident only later, but their audacity was clear from the start. The spree began in Stockholm in 2010, with cars burning in the streets on a foggy summer evening. The ...

As politically provocative as it is sexually candid, the ambitious and assured “Summer Palace” is just the kind of film calculated to give the Chinese government fits. And it did. An intense romantic ...

The 100-year-old Palace Museum, situated on the site of the Forbidden City in Beijing, has welcomed a special visitor from Taipei -- a city some 2,000 kilometers away that is home to another Palace ...