Photo of the week – Marble Boat
28 November 2009
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Like most of the Summer Palace, the lakeside pavillion which is now known as the Marble Boat was destroyed by Anglo-French during the second opium war. Almost every building in Beijing’s Summer Palace has since been restored and has a plaque noting the fact that it was destroyed over drugs. As I stood taking photos and admiring the detail that has gone into it I overheard an American asking his tour guide “Did they ever use it for trips on the lake?”.
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