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A lot of the Summer Palace's current state is due to the state of neglect in which it was left afterwards by the successive regimes. The conservancy policies i
by Bayart 8y ago
A lot of the Summer Palace's current state is due to the state of neglect in which it was left afterwards by the successive regimes.
The conservancy policies in China are generally quite appalling. Monuments are either disneyified for tourism and bigotted propaganda or left to rot/built over without a care in the world.
- adventured 8y agoA recent example of that from 2016, when a large stretch of the Great Wall was paved over flat with concrete, in what was claimed to be an act of restoration: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/world/asia/china-great-wall-botched-repair.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/world/asia/china-great-wa... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37442276 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37442276
- fspeech 8y agoThere is not one single "Great Wall". There are many stretches and thousands of miles of them, built and rebuilt over thousands of years, all in various stage of decay save for a few sites preserved for tourism. Peter Hessler wrote a very readable piece for the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/21/walking-the-wall https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/21/walking-the-wa...