Before You Die: White out at the Summer Palace by Philip Sen
It might have been built as a retreat from the heat, but when the frost and snow descend upon Beijing, the Summer Palace takes on an ethereal beauty all of its own. As you look over the icy lake around which this last resort of the doomed Qing Dynasty is built, the irony is almost too poignant.
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