In a quiet section of the suburbs of Beijing to the northwest of Qinghua University, there once stood a complex of gardens known as the Yuanmingyuan. Built in the Qing Dynasty, this "garden of ...

When Frenchman Remi Launay, 29, visited Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, in summer, the lines of a letter by famous French poet and novelist Victor Hugo engraved on the stone provoked his ...

Tourists visit Haitang Academy at the Old Summer Palace Ruins Park in Beijing, capital of China, Jan 16, 2025. As the China ...

In the years before 1995 young artists who pursued free creativity came from all over the country to Yuanmingyuan in the western suburbs of Beijing These people settled in the rental houses of the ...

SYNOPSIS Towards the end of 1989 several artists moved to an area near the ruins of Yuanmingyuan the former Beijing Summer Palace Farewell Yuanmingyuan documents the trials and tribulations of the ...

Also known as Yuanmingyuan Park, the Old Summer Palace was once one of China's most magnificent royal gardens until it was ...

A sculpture of French writer Victor Hugo at Beijing's Old Summer Palace, also called Yuanmingyuan. [Photo provided to China Daily] When Frenchman Remi Launay, 29, visited Beijing's Yuanmingyuan ...