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Zhuhai’s High-Life Legacy

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Aug 22, 2007
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A Singapore tourist looks admiringly at paintings by an Italian Jesuit living at the Beijing court in a building modeled on portion of the palace of Louis XIV at Versailles. Outside, the rooms are painted in the rich crimson reserved for the Chinese Emperor.

This grand reconstruction of the Yuan Ming Yuan, an imperial palace destroyed by the British and …

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