[The China Project] What led to the burning of Beijing’s Old Summer Palace?

[The China Project] What led to the burning of Beijing’s Old Summer Palace?

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Yuanmingyuan had already been looted by foreign armies earlier in
the month. But European powers wanted to further punish the Qing
emperor, and so decided, in mid-October 1860, to set fire to the
fabled "Garden of Eternal Brightness."


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Narrated by Anthony Tao.


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