Dressing visitors in ancient China's imperial splendor is booming in Beijing

BEIJING — Chen Jiao has a curious job: transforming visitors to resemble empresses from ancient China as young people explore a revival of traditional culture. She is one of hundreds of makeup artists working at studios in Beijing near the Forbidden City, once home to the emperors of China's last two dynasties, Ming and Qing. Every day, visitors arrive to dress in robes richly embroidered with phoenixes and adorn themselves with jade and pearl pendants and gold fingernail guards like those