Here, Beijing-based historian Lars Ulrik Thom ... which is where the eastern wall of the Imperial City ran. The wall was torn down in the 1920s, so it’s easy to forget that it was ever there ...

Marco Polo was stunned by the beautiful grassland enclosed in the imperial palace, which teemed with fruit trees and breeding animals such as deer and goats. Roughly 300 years later, Beijing had ...

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The city of Beijing is planned on a north-south grid ... Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong), also known as the Forbidden City as it was the private dwelling of the Ming ...

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In Liao Dynasty, the temple stood in the most flourishing market district of the imperial city; thus one can imagine the important role it played in embellishing the skyline of ancient Beijing.