It was the swinging 30s. The big bands of the 40s. It was San Francisco night life – Baghdad by the Bay. And the crowds were packing the nation’s premiere all-Chinese nightclub, Forbidden City. Like the Cotton Club of Harlem which featured America’s finest African American entertainers, Forbidden City gained an international reputation with its unique showcase of Chinese American performers in eye-popping all-American extravaganzas.FORBIDDEN...

The first Westerner, man or woman, to film inside Communist China was Lucy Jarvis. Her unique blend of journalism and film making brings us a very special insider's look at the mystery, opulence, and grandeur of one of mankind's greatest treasure: a city, Peking, and a civilization that has survived and endures. We are treated to never before filmed sights and marvelous entertainment sequences.

This program explores the history of imperial China through its symbolic heart: Beijing, the "Forbidden City." The program presents a visually stunning tour of the hub of the world's oldest bureaucracy and center for all Chinese government, a city containing schools, temples, theaters, exquisite gardens, and 240 acres of palaces. Period paintings, etchings, archival material and readings from 1,000 years of Imperial diaries complement this unprecedented...

Yue Jiu, the most famous opera singer in all of Imperial China, is expelled from the capital city from vulgarity. He heads south, where he encounters Wang Runsheng, a promising young opera singer for the Chuntai Troupe. When the Emperor invites all of china₂s opera troupes back to the capital city for a celebration, Yue Jiu and Runsheng are forced ot choose between their reputations, their safety, and their love of opera.

In a laboratory, a team of engineers create a replica of Beijing's Forbidden City to uncover the secrets underlying its ability to withstand earthquakes over the centuries.

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Turandot, the beautiful but icy Chinese princess, will marry only the man who can answer correctly her three riddles. Calaf answers them and bargains with Turandot that if she learns his name before dawn he will forfeit his life.

A movie that "packs a lot of laughs and action into a beautifully shot 105 minutes" (Variety), Chinese odyssey 2002 follows royal heirs Princess Wushuang (Asian pop diva and Chungking Express heroine Faye Wong) and future Emperor Zheng De (Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's Chen Chang) as they escape the Forbidden City to taste life among Ming Dynasty China's have-nots. Combining swordfights, slapstick, satire, songs, and genuine sentiment into a lightning-paced...