The Forbidden City
By: Geremie R. Barmé.
Series: Wonders of the World
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780674027794
Subjects: Forbidden City (Beijing, China) -- History.
Notes: "First published in the United Kingdom by Profile Books ... London"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: A palace of blood and tears; value: The architecture of hierarchy; value: Rise and decline; value: A day in the reign; value: The dowager; value: Within and without the palace; value: Three hundred years on; value: The banquet of history.