Encountering the Palace Cats

• 来源期刊: 北京周报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（15）
• 所属期刊栏目: EXPAT'S EYE
• 页码范围: 48
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Since 2009, certain furry occupants in the Forbidden City, or the Palace Museum, have been receiving global social media attention: the palace's small army of stray cats. Some descendants of imperial pets, others wandering in from other parts of the city, these diligent feline guards are allowed inside the museum walls for the primary purpose of defending its wooden structures and priceless relics against mice and rats.