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What is amazing about the Imperial Palace, or the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, or which ever name you are familiar with, is the beautiful lines and geometric shapes of the corridors, lanes, paths and architectural structures.

Chenlung Temple at the Palace

October 17th 2009
On the Friday the opening ceremonies were held for the new Tibetan Research Center at the Palace Museum. The location was what seemed like a remote location on the grounds behind a temple built by Emperor Chenlung. The temple is quite unique in that the outer architecture is completely Chinese but inside the four floors are decorated with murals depicting the iconography of the four classes of T ... 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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