Perfection is part of the process
By Liu Xiangrui | China Daily | Updated: 2012-07-12 08:00
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Bamboo craftsman He Fuli repairs a bamboo screen at Juanqinzhai, in the Forbidden City. Provided to China Daily |
Restoring Emperor Qianlong's long-sealed-off lodge Juanqinzhai required an epic journey throughout the country. The Palace Museum had to find the last practitioners of the virtually vanished techniques used to fashion the building about two centuries ago.
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