East meets west to help restore Forbidden City
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008SHARDS OF exquisitely carved white jade and pieces of inner bamboo carvings littered the floor of the Qianlong Emperor’s favourite studio in the Forbidden City in Beijing when the restorers arrived to start the huge project of rescuing the abandoned building in 1999.
Juanqinzhai, the “Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service”, is a miniature two-storey palace, [...]