Panoramic Record of the Forbidden City: The Palace Museum Reader

Author: Wang Jinglun
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book opens up a vivid and engaging picture of the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with its authentic portrayal. It brings back the lively atmosphere of every silent palace, revives long-sealed ceremonies and rituals in living contexts, gently brushes away five centuries of dust, and reveals the true faces of figures in the imperial palace. The joys and sorrows, life and death of emperors and empresses, the solemnity and sorrow at major historical turning points, the rationality and absurdity of government affairs, as well as the opulence and hardship of palace life, are all vividly presented. This book is a substantial expansion and improvement of the author's previous work, The Forbidden City Scroll, which was published after four years of dedicated research. It forms a more comprehensive system. With this book, people from all over the world who love Chinese culture can truly and fully understand the Forbidden City.