Yu Garden
Ming-dynasty scholar's garden of rockeries, ponds and zigzag bridges built over nearly two decades.
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This guide to Yu Garden in Shanghai follows Pan Yunduan, a young official who failed one of the empire's toughest exams and set out instead to build his aging father the most beautiful garden in the city. It traces the nearly two decades the garden took to complete, into the 1570s, and the cost that nearly ruined the family building it. Stand beside the towering rockery and the zigzag bridge in front of you as you listen.
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