Journal Call no. | AP8.W56 |
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Author | Binks, Hilary. |
Article Title | Forbidden treasures : realist Jiang Guo Fang's sweeping views from the inside / Hilary Binks. |
Is Part Of | Window ; v.3, no.41, 21 Oct 1994, p.38-39, illus. |
Abstract | Every visitor standing for the first time before the gates of the Forbidden City in Beijing must feel awestruck. No film or written account quite captures the vast scale of this "city within a city" constructed by the Emperor Yong Le in the early 15th century. |