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- 1834 February, “Description of the City of Peking.”, in The Chinese Repository[1], volume II, number 10, Canton, →OCLC, page 438:
- The northern division of Peking consists of three inclosures one within another, each surrounded by its own wall. The first contains the imperial palace and the abodes of the different members of the imperial household ;[...]
The first inclosure, which is called the forbidden city, being the seat of ‘ the dragon’s throne,’ the place from which emanates the authority that governs one-third of mankind, is the most splendid, as well as the most important part of Peking. According to the notions of a Chinese, all within its walls is gold and silver.
- 1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica[2], volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 532, columns 1, 2:
- And within the Imperial city was the moated Forbidden city, with walls two and one-quarter miles long, plastered with a violet-coloured mortar, whence comes the popular name of the Purple city. The Forbidden city contained the Imperial palaces, which have been converted into a museum.
- 1983, Roderick MacFarquhar, The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 (The Origins of the Cultural Revolution)[4], volume 2, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
- Finally, in October, P'eng was moved from his quarters in the Chungnanhai area of the Forbidden City, where Mao, Liu Shao-ch’i and other Politburo members lived, to a dilapidated house in the Wu Chia Hua Yuan (Wu Family Garden), a compound within the Yuan Ming Park on the northern outskirts of Peking.
- 1991, Chris Mullin, The Year of the Fire Monkey[5] (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252:
- The wall surrounding the Chung Nan Hai is high and wide, painted vermilion in keeping with the decor of the Forbidden City. It has a circumference of many miles, intersected at intervals by gates guarded day and night by armed soldiers.
- 1998, George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, “Untying a Knot”, in A World Transformed[6], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 88–89:
- On May 30, they erected what became a symbol of the protests, a thirty-three-foot statue of the “Goddess of Democracy” (bearing a striking resemblance to the Statue of Liberty), which was placed to face the giant portrait of Mao over the gate to the Forbidden City.
- 1999, “Beijing”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367:
- The view from the coal hill of Mei Shan, highest elevation in the heart of Beijing, toward the Forbidden City is like a fantastic journey into the inexhaustible treasure-trove of Chinese culture. Perhaps no other metropolis is as deeply enthralled by the spell of its own history.
- 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life[7], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 435:
- After we toured the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, I held a question-and-answer session with students at Beijing University.
- 2008 July, Mier W. Wang [王未江], “Tourist Attractions”, in Beijing Tourism Manual [北京旅游手册][8], Beijing: China Travel & Tourism Press [中国旅游出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 8–9:
- Forming the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City, or Gugong in Chinese, has survived the rule of 24 emperors, lasting over 500 years. All the way until 1924 (the royal family was removed that year), this was the imperial palace where emperors and governments wrote history and made national decisions. During the 500 years, officials forbade the public from entering Gugong, which led to its name the "Forbidden City." Taking 15 years and millions of workers to complete, the gigantic Gugong was built with exactly 9,999 rooms (10,000 being a sacred number only to be used by gods), and it offered housing to almost everyone, including the imperial family, servants, officials, consorts, concubines, eunuchs, and many more.
- 2019 February 19, Anna Fifield, “China’s Forbidden City to open to the general public at night for the first time in 94 years”, in The Washington Post[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 February 2019, WorldViews[10]:
- Those lucky visitors may be able to discover whether there is any truth to the legend that the Forbidden City, which was the home of China’s emperors between 1420 and 1912, is haunted by ghosts who come out just at night.
Usually only VIPs — such as President Trump in 2017 — get to venture into the Forbidden City at night.
- 2019 September 30, Clifford Coonan, “Struggle in store for economy as People's Republic of China turns 70”, in Deutsche Welle[11], archived from the original on 01 October 2019, Business[12]:
- As he looks down from the rostrum of the Forbidden City in Beijing at the military parade to mark the 70th birthday of the People's Republic of China, President Xi Jinping can consider the achievements and struggles of those seven tumultuous decades.
- 2022 May 1, “Beijing tourist sites empty in Covid-stalked public holiday”, in France 24[13], archived from the original on 01 May 2022[14]:
- Beijing so far has reported over 300 cases under the current wave, and authorities on Saturday banned city-wide dining services starting Sunday to May 4 -- an attempt to curb infections during a holiday that is typically an annual peak consumption period.
"It will have a definite impact on sales," a restaurant employee surnamed An told AFP, as she scanned for customers around Beijing's Dongcheng district -- home to historic attractions like the Forbidden City. […]
At a restaurant not far from the unusually quiet Forbidden City palace complex, stacks of marinated chicken feet, flatbreads and cold cuts in takeaway containers languished on an outdoor table as staff chatted idly inside. […]
Instead of entering the Forbidden City, lines of people waited outside the palace complex to get a swab test -- a new normal for Beijing residents.