Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing
October 8th 2006 Summary: The (new) Summer Palace also called Yiheyuan in Chinese is essentially eightteen century. The Manchu Emperor Qianlong built this palace during his emperorship in 1736 - 1795. But the Yiheyuan is the most associated with the Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi was and is the most powerfull woman China has ever known. She ruled over the fast disintegrating Chinese empire from 1861 until her death in
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