New Qing Imperial History
Subtitle: The Making of the Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: July 6, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415320061
First sentence: A certain early modern monarch, a man of towering ambition, undertook extensive renovations on the rural retreat first used by an earlier monarch as a hunting lodge.