For three years the WMF has been working with the Palace Museum to restore the Lodge of Retirement. This was originally built for Qianlong in the 1770s but had remained untouched and largely unseen since the last emperor left the Forbidden City in 1924.
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The Forbidden City unveiled
There will be a rare chance to glimpse some of the long unseen areas of Beijing’s Forbidden City on November 28, when Henry Tzu Ng of the World Monuments Fund will deliver a lecture at the Royal Academy in conjunction with their forthcoming exhibition – China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795.
