1. Three styles of architecture predominate in urban Beijing. First, the traditional architecture of imperial China, perhaps best exemplified by the massive Tian'anmen (Gate of Heavenly Peace), which remains the People's Republic of China's trademark edifice, the Forbidden City , the Imperial Ancestral Temple and the Temple of Heaven .

Im Januar 1949 nahmen die Kommunisten Peking ein – neun Monate bevor die Flucht Chiang Kai-sheks nach Taiwan den endgültigen Sieg zur Gewissheit werden ließ.