Geremie Barmé, scholar, filmmaker and author of a new book The Forbidden City, tells the story of one of the strangest buildings inside Beijing's imperial palace. This article is from Danwei.org ...full story at Danwei
from Danwei on Wed, Jul 23 2008
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