FOR THE PRIVATE PLEASANCE OF THE SONS OF HEAVEN. - Wallenclosed within the walled Imperial City, the forbidden city of Peking contained a number of palaces providing for the inviolable privacy of the Emperor. One of the most famous of these was the sacrosanct Summer Palace from which this scene is taken, showing the Royal Marble Barge moored on the Lotus Lake and on which the Emperor would oftimes take tea. These palaces are now deserted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 6
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75FOR THE PRIVATE PLEASANCE OF THE SONS OF HEAVEN. – Wallenclosed within the walled Imperial City, the forbidden city of Peking contained a number of palaces providing for the inviolable privacy of the Emperor. One of the most famous of these was the sacrosanct Summer Palace from which this scene is taken, showing the Royal Marble Barge moored on the Lotus Lake and on which the Emperor would oftimes take tea. These palaces are now deserted. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 6
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