Frommer's Review


Docked at the end of the Long Corridor is an odd structure which is "neither marble nor a boat," as one novelist observed. Locals, keen to blame the Empress Dowager for China's decline during the Qing dynasty, wring their hands and cite it as the symbol of China's demise. Cixi funded a general restoration of the palace using money intended for the Chinese navy, and the (completely frivolous) boat is said to be Cixi's backhanded reference to the source of the funds. Shortly after the restoration was completed in 1888, China's paltry fleet was destroyed in a skirmish with Japan, the loudest evidence yet of China's weakness in the modern era.

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. Milu Yuan (Milu Park) . Factory 798 (Qijiuba Gongchang) . Wu Men (Meridian Gate) . Wanshou Si . Tian Yi Mu . Taihe Men (Gate of Great Harmony) . Taihe Dian (Hall of Great Harmony) . Tai Miao . Song Qingling Guju . Seventeen-Arch Bridge (Shiqi Kong Qiao) . Ri Tan Gongyuan (Ri Tan Park) . Renshou Dian (Hall of Benevolence and Longevity) . Zhonghe Dian (Hall of Middle Harmony) . Ming City Wall Park

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