For a survey of Chinese history, head to the National Museum of China. Positioned on the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square, the exhibits in this museum neatly outline the nation's past for visitors ...

They include scroll paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics — even ornate antique clocks gifted to emperors by early ...

National Museum of Natural History The key to the findings was determining ... s lab who is now at Capital Normal University in Beijing, also contributed to the project.] Former museum postdoc ...

In the early 1930s, before Japanese forces swept across China, Palace Museum authorities packed up many pieces - including imperial thrones - and moved them out of Beijing to other cities.

Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with jade and agate is among thousands of artefacts pulled out of museum ... in the heart of Beijing.