Summer Palace

Summer Palace

Also known as 颐和园

Year

1750

Type

landscape

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Empress Dowager Cixi rebuilt the Summer Palace in 1886-1895 using funds notoriously diverted from naval modernization, restoring a Qing imperial garden that had been destroyed by Anglo-French forces in 1860. The 290-hectare complex is organ …

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