PolyU Library
Journal Call no.AP8.W56
AuthorBinks, Hilary.
Article TitleForbidden treasures : realist Jiang Guo Fang's sweeping views from the inside / Hilary Binks.
Is Part OfWindow ; v.3, no.41, 21 Oct 1994, p.38-39, illus.
AbstractEvery visitor standing for the first time before the gates of the Forbidden City in Beijing must feel awestruck. No film or written account quite captures the vast scale of this "city within a city" constructed by the Emperor Yong Le in the early 15th century.