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 ...

Visitors enjoy the beautiful autumn scenery at the Summer Palace in Beijing, Nov 2, 2025. [Photo by Jiang Dong/chinadaily.com.cn] As the Summer Palace is draped in autumn colors, tourists flock to ...

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 ...

People visit the 17-Arch Bridge in the Summer Palace in Beijing, capital of China on Dec. 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli) Visitors take photos of the illuminated 17-Arch Bridge at sunset in the Summer ...

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 "Twelve Beauties" stroll through flowers at the Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, in Beijing on Sept. 29, 2025. The original image of "Twelve Beauties" was a painting displayed at the Old Summer ...

What if a good, often great film from an exciting young-ish Chinese director opened in New York City to generally positive reviews and no one cared? What if that same film had the pedigree of a ...