The Summer Palace Photo 2

The Summer Palace

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October 5th 2011
颐和园, or the Summer Palace is a palace in Beijing, mainly consisting of a huge man-made lake called Kunming lake and Longevity Hill. It has been on the World Heritage List since December of 1998, regaurded as "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design." One could spend an entire day or even multiple days wandering through it's maze-like paths, stumbling upon amazing gardens and bui ... 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