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Restorations at the Summer Palace

Modern pavement around Kunming Lake is being ripped out and replaced with traditional paving materials.

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Naked foreigners in the Summer Palace

Beijing’s Summer Palace is connected to two of the more sensitive spots in the history of Sino-foreign relations. In 1860, Anglo-French forces sacked and burned down the original Summer Palace (圆明园) during the Second Opium War. In 1900, whatever buildings … Continue reading

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Who’s doing the censoring, exactly?

Lou Ye gets banned from filmmaking, and workers in a Beijing film processing plant confiscate copies of a movie they think is too sexy.

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Summer Palace rejected over aesthetic differences

Summer Palace (颐和园) by Lou Ye (娄烨) gets rejected by the censors over fuzzy images and poor sound quality.

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