Yuanmingyuan Park—An Eternal Monument
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Yuanmingyuan Park—An Eternal Monument
Author: Edited by Shangguan Feng, et. al.; Translated by Chen Haiyan, et. al.
Order No. 3187
ISBN-13: 9787507104677
ISBN-10: 7507104672
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Chinese Literature Press
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 71
Language: English and Simplified Chinese
Size: 8.25 x 11.25
Price: $25.00
This album contains a collection of over 100 pictures of Yuanmingyuan. Intermixed with modern images are illustrations and drawings of what it once was.
Yuanmingyuan (Garden of Perfect Splendor) is renowned for its fabled charm and association with modern Chinese history. Extolled as “Garden of Gardens” and “Versailles in the East”, it was an imperial summer resort painstakingly built and repeatedly expanded under the personal supervision of the five emperors of the Qing dynasty. The skill and sophistication of this historic site, however, did not escape the destruction inflicted upon it and China generally by the West. In October 1860 Anglo-French forces sacked and looted Yuanmingyuan and reduced most of it to rubble.
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