Hello all, I am in Beijing for a couple of weeks. I visited the Forbidden City on last Saturday and shot a few interesting textures and objects, including a centuries-old sundial!
The challenge was to find a piece of floor or wall without a little Chinese person on it. The Forbidden City was closed to Chinese people for centuries, and now they're making up for it. At any given time, you're sharing the place with around a million of them. I stood at the main gate for 10 minutes and I estimated that roughly 2000 people got in during that time. When you get out, you have to shake your clothes and belongings just to make sure you're not unknowingly kidnapping whole families.
Here's a link to some low-res examples:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/bruno.guay/B ... 9WhofXuBQ#
I also went to the Summer Palace but that was a formal social event at night, so no textures.