Saving the date

There has been a resurgence in the popularity of the printed Chinese almanac since Wang Guanliang and her colleagues resumed publishing the Palace Museum's calendar in 2009, Yang Yang reports.

In 2009, Wang Guanliang and her colleagues - editors at the Forbidden City Publishing House in Beijing - attended a lecture on publications from the 1930s.

Perhaps the one that impressed them the most was the Palace Museum's calendar of 1937, the last one published since the Forbidden City started making such calendars in 1932.