East Asian Languages and Cultures

(New) Summer Palace, Beijing 3/16/04. Rachel Mandell '07 and Ly Huong Dinh '06 enjoy some time paddling around on the manmade lake called Kunming Hu, one of Beijing's few bodies of water. The old Summer Palace was burned down by British and French troops in 1860 during the 2nd Opium War. Empress Dowager Cixi rebuilt it on an adjacent site, using a reallocated Navy budget, in 1988.

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