Municipalities also are actively engaged in historic preservation. Beijing alone now has 3,553 officially recognized historic and cultural relics, including five sites on the UNESCO World Heritage ...

The Monument to the People's Heroes, constructed from August 1952 to May 1958, was the first large scale memorial built in New China. Towering 10 stories high, its northern fagade is dominated by ...

The tear down of the Goddess of Democracy is the latest in a string of removals of monuments ... removed a famous statue marking the massacre of students in Beijing in 1989. The Chinese state ...