故宫恢复往日辉煌

choi

张彦, 中国复兴传统文化，故宫恢复往日辉煌. 纽约时报, Aug 7, 2019
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/201 ... bidden-city-museum/

, which is translated from

Ian Johnson, With New Pride in Its Past, China Raises the Curtain on the Forbidden City. New York Times, Aug 4, 2019.

Note:
(a) "the Forbidden City approaches its 600th birthday next year"

Forbidden City  (Since 1925, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum; The name Zijin Cheng 紫禁城 first formally appeared in 1576, 紫 for 紫微 -- the North Star; about Forbidden City: "construction began in 1406 * * * lasted 14 years")  en.wikipedia.org for Forbidden City.

明成祖/永樂帝 (年号 永乐; reign 1402-1424) 1421年 "正式遷都."  zh.wikipedia.org for 明成祖.
(b) "Mao’s Communist government debated tearing down the complex, or creating a vast Soviet-style wedding cake palace opposite it. In the end the turmoil of that era spared the palace, but it was often closed, its staff members at times tortured during political campaigns."
(i) Stalinist architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinist_architecture
("between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of the Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev condemned 'excesses' of the past decades")

Search this Wiki page with cake, and find the word appears three times.
(ii) Joseph Stalin (1878 – 1953)