The largest siheyuan in the world, was the home to the last two imperial dynasties, Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912), from1420 to 1924. 980 buildings in the complex…
truth is stranger than fiction
The largest siheyuan in the world, was the home to the last two imperial dynasties, Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912), from1420 to 1924. 980 buildings in the complex…
A memoir by my grant-aunt Chow Chung-Cheng (周仲铮 1908-96; Zhou Zhongzheng). Before the second hand books on the internet, I interloaned her book from Library…