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The Garden of Perfect Brightness:

The History of the Yüan Ming Yüan and of the Emperors who Lived There
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Williams and Norgate, 1950 - Manchus - 239 pages

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Contents

n KANG HSIS DEATH
14
IMPORTANT
26
VH THE EIGHT BANNERS THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE
33
Copyright

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Ambassador artists Attiret Audience Hall Bannermen beautiful Benoit Braam brick bridges buildings built carved Castiglione ceremony Ch'ien Lung Ch'un Chia Ch'ing China Chinese colours concubines court courtyards decorated Dynasty edict Eight Banners Embassy Emperor Emperor Ch'ien Lung Empire Empress Empress-Dowager Envoy eunuchs European palaces Father favour Festival flowers Forbidden City Forty Scenes fountains Fragrant Concubine French Garden of Perfect Garden of Prolonged Gate gave happy Heaven hills honour Hsiang Fei Hsien Feng hundred Imperial island Jade Jehol Jesuits K'ang Hsi lake lanterns lived Lord Elgin Lord Macartney lovely Lung's Manchu marble Middle Kingdom Ming Dynasty Ming Yiian Minister Moon mother officials ornaments painted pavilion Peking Perfect Brightness picture pleasance presented priests Prince Kung Prolonged Springtime reign sent Shen silk stone T'ung Tao Kuang Temple thousand tiles told took trees walls wrote Yehonala yellow Yiian Ming Yuan Ming Yuan Yung Cheng

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Bibliography on Gardens in China: Sources in Western Languages
The following bibliography lists studies in Western languages on the history and appreciation of gardens in China. For a comprehensive, topically ordered ...
inside.bard.edu/ ~louis/ gardens/ bibliochina.html

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TitleThe Garden of Perfect Brightness: The History of the Yüan Ming Yüan and of the Emperors who Lived There
AuthorHope Danby
PublisherWilliams and Norgate, 1950
Length239 pages
  
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