Aug 10, 2011 05:17 PM

China Asks: What's Eating the Forbidden City?

By staff reporters Ren Bo, Cao Haili, Lan Fang, Lu Yanzheng and Zhang Yanling

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A sense of dignified peace is what most visitors take away from China's 600-year-old royal palace, the Forbidden City, in the heart of Beijing.

But reputations at this stately complex of red walls and dragon-scale roofs, officially called the Palace Museum, have been tarnished in recent months by undignified and culturally painful management mistakes.

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