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The New Yuan Ming Palace
Full-size replica of an imperial Qing garden, with lakeside palaces and baroque European fountains.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the New Yuan Ming Palace in Zhuhai starts at the European-style palaces, a full-size copy of a corner of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, rebuilt here in the nineteen-nineties. It reaches back to the Qianlong Emperor and the Jesuit missionaries who designed his baroque fountains, and to the British and French troops of eighteen sixty. You'll also meet a Chinese collector at a Paris auction in two thousand nine. Best heard standing by the zodiac fountain, facing the bronze animal heads.
This audio guide was created using AI.