City Memory · Old Images: The Former Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan

Author: Liu Yang
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Publishing Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The book includes a large number of unpublished precious photographs and materials, with forty scenes presented in their original French versions. Detailed introductions and color-reproduced maps are provided for Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden. It is currently the cheapest available French original forty-scene illustrations in China. This book is part of a series published by Zebra Studio to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the destruction of the Old Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace was the largest and most elaborately decorated imperial garden in Chinese history, representing the pinnacle of ancient Chinese court garden art. It played an irreplaceable role in the Qing Dynasty of China, witnessing the rise and fall of an era and documenting one of the most barbaric moments in world history.