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

Author: Liu Yang
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The book includes a large number of previously unpublished precious photographs and materials, with forty scenes presented as the original French versions. Detailed introductions and color-reproduced diagrams are provided for Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden. It is currently the most affordable French original forty-scene illustrations available 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 architecture. 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 brutal moments in world history.