From Jorge Cham’s masterful and frighteningly on target strip, Piled Higher & Deeper.
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The restoration of the westerner-designed and westerner-demolished palace at Yuanmingyuan (sometimes known as the “Old Summer Palace”) is a topic that comes up every so often in the Chinese media and online community. This time around due to reports that a replica is being built in Hengdian, Zhejiang. “So much controversy and concern from the media [...] “This age is one in which the entire world is developing communications. In the past, Chinese people viewed our country as all under heaven, and Westerners likewise thought Europe was the world. Today things are gradually moving forward; Chinese people already know there is a so-called Western civilization, and Westerners, even though our country is [...] |
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