"Marble" boat in the Summer Palace of Beijing

The Empress Dowager paid for this extavagant construction with funds meant for the modernization of the Imperial Navy. The main structure of the boat is actually made of wood and painted white to look like marble.

#91 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Empress Dowager CiXi's Summer Palace in Beijing)

January 10th 2008
One of Beijing's greatest and most beautiful historical attractions is the SUMMER PALACE, a short distance outside of China's Capitol. No photos can capture the vastness, beauty, and serenety of this idyllic summer hide-away for China's last royal dynasty. Though the construction and expansion of this unique World Heritage Site had been underway for hundreds of years, it would be the Empress Dow ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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