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Title
Summer Palace, Boat of Purity and Ease (1 of 2)
Creator
Sanford, James C
Date Created and/or Issued
1972-04-1 to 1972-04-12
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
James Sanford Collection
Rights Information
Under copyright
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Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
Sanford, James
Description
Album 5 Beijing - cultural, Image 4
A woman is boating near a stationary marble boat on the shore of Kunming Lake, Beijing. The Marble Boat is a frivolous expenditure of the Empress Dowager in the late 19th century. April 1972.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb2536630w
Subject
Architecture, Chinese
Tourists
Pavilions
Marble Boat
Lakes
Women
Boats and boating
Trees
Clothing and dress
Qing yan fang (Yihe Yuan, Beijing, China)
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
Kunming Lake (Yihe Yuan, Beijing, China)
Place
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
Kunming Lake (Yihe Yuan, Beijing, China)

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