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The Garden of Perfect Brightness - The History of The Yuan Ming Yuan and of the Emperors who lived there.
Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, no date [1950].Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1950, first american edition. 1 volume 8vo, 239 pp., rebound in modern full leather, with a frontispice and many illustrations and photographs, a very good and clean copy with a small library stamp.
"The Yuan Ming Yuan - The Garden of Perfect Brightness - was presented by the Emperor K'ang His to the son whom he had selected to succeed him. The new Emperor, Yung Cheng, made the garden his principal place of residence both for pleasure and for conducting the affairs of State. He embellished it with pavilions and with halls where "he received his officials and scholars and spent his time in discussing literature, in composing poetry, in singing and in meditation." (Extract from the Introduction by J.T. Pratt).
