| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Young-tsu Wong. A Paradise Lost: The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2001. Pp. x, 226. $29.95.

Young-tsu Wong's book is an in-depth study of the gardens and architectural features of one of the major Qing imperial residences and a muftifaceted account of its history. Beyond having to be conversant in two disciplines, the author's task was made more challenging by the fact that his previous work focused on the history of Republican China, not the Qing period. By making use of a large number of Chinese sources, both archival and secondary, and excellent maps, sketches, plans, and photographs, he overcomes these potential difficulties admirably. I was initially wary of an approach and language that sometimes seemed to indicate a lack of connectedness to the more recent scholarship in the field of Qing history—which increasingly understands the Qing as a multiethnic empire of which China was only one part—but Wong's detailed recreation eventually drew me in to the world of the Yuanming Yuan. . . .

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