Forbidden City

16 books

The Craftsman's Heart: A Lifetime to Master One Thing cover
Rating 3.9
The Craftsman's Heart: A Lifetime to Master One Thing Qiu Yang / Qiu Lian / 艾江涛 CITIC Press · 2016 The Craftsman's Heart: A Lifetime to Master One Thing was reported and written by Qiu Yang, Qiu Lian, Ai Jiangtao and other journalists of Sanlian Lif…
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A Mainland Reporter Looks at Taiwan Yubing Peng Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2011 A Mainland Reporter Looks at Taiwan is a work of reportage by Peng Yubing, a veteran editor and reporter at China National Radio's Voice of China. In …
The Grand Forbidden City 3 cover
Rating 4.0
The Grand Forbidden City 3 Yan Chongnian Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2013 The Grand Forbidden City 3 is the concluding volume of Yan Chongnian's Grand Forbidden City trilogy, released alongside the CCTV Lecture Room series o…
The Forbidden City's Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon: Decoding the "Da Vinci Code" of the Palace Museum's Paintings and Calligraphy cover
Rating 3.8
The Forbidden City's Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon: Decoding the "Da Vinci Code" of the Palace Museum's Paintings and Calligraphy Zhu Yong Oriental Press · 2013 This book is a set of art essays by the writer and Palace Museum scholar Zhu Yong, taking the museum's collection of ancient Chinese paintings and cal…
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Rating 4.0
From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum: Construction, Art, and History 单士元 Beijing Publishing House · 2017 This book is an accessible introduction to Palace Museum studies, revised and expanded from Shan Shiyuan's 1962 work A Historical Account of the Palac…
Masters in the Forbidden City cover
Rating 4.0
Masters in the Forbidden City Xiao Han / 绿妖 / 严明 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2017 Masters in the Forbidden City is a paper companion to the documentary of the same name. Documentary director Xiao Han serves as chief editor; writer L…
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Rating 3.9
Half-Hour Manga: The Forbidden City—Cultural Relics 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 This is the third volume in the "Half-Hour Manga: The Forbidden City" series and the closing volume of the set. The first two volumes covered how the …
Six Hundred Years of the Forbidden City cover
Rating 3.8
Six Hundred Years of the Forbidden City Zhu Yong People's Literature Publishing House · 2020 There are many books about the Forbidden City, and most fall into two camps: one burrows into the engineering minutiae of brackets and painted beams, …
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Masters in the Forbidden City Xiao Han Guangxi Normal University Press · 2017 This book is the print edition of the documentary of the same name that premiered on CCTV in 2016 and later went viral on Bilibili. It is edited by di…
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Watching the Gate at the Forbidden City 维一 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2011 This is a set of reminiscences by Wei Yi (real name Huang Qixu), written as a way of "excavating fragments of memory." Born in Shanghai and raised in …
Red Walls and Yellow Tiles: A Pictorial Guide to Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture cover
Red Walls and Yellow Tiles: A Pictorial Guide to Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture Zhang Kequn China Machine Press · 2010 This is the first volume in architect Zhang Kequn's series "Pictorial Guide to Old Beijing's Ancient Architecture," and it is devoted precisely to the…
The Great Forbidden City cover
Rating 3.8
The Great Forbidden City Yan Chongnian Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2012 The Great Forbidden City is a Forbidden City-themed work by Qing history expert Yan Chongnian, written on the basis of more than thirty years of accum…
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The Grand Forbidden City 2 Yan Chongnian Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2012 The Grand Forbidden City 2 is the second volume in Qing historian Yan Chongnian's series The Grand Forbidden City. Continuing the first volume's accou…
Natural History in the Forbidden City: A Qing Court Bird Album for Children cover
Rating 3.7
Natural History in the Forbidden City: A Qing Court Bird Album for Children 小海 / 夏雪 / Yu Sheng / Zhang Weibang The Forbidden City Publishing House, CITIC Press Group · 2019 Natural History in the Forbidden City: A Qing Court Bird Album for Children is the volume in the "Natural History in the Forbidden City" series based …
A History of Six Hundred Years of Turmoil in the Great Forbidden City cover
Rating 3.5
A History of Six Hundred Years of Turmoil in the Great Forbidden City Yan Chongnian Qingdao Publishing House · 2020 This book is a popular history written by historian Yan Chongnian in 2020 to commemorate the six hundredth anniversary of the completion of the Forbid…
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Rating 3.8
The Forbidden City in Parts 张淑娴 / 窦海军 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This book introduces the partial structures, styles, uses and interesting aspects of the architecture of the Forbidden City. It is a color-illustrated…