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Alice Poon:
Considering how powerful the country of China has become, I would think there would be more historians writing about Chinese history. Does the Chinese government make it difficult to do research on Chinese imperial history?
Alice Poon
For Chinese imperial history, there is a comprehensive set of official histories entitled "The Twenty-Four Histories" or "The Orthodox Histories" covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming Dynasty (17th century). This complete set was fixed and edited under the reign of Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. As for the Qing Dynasty history, there is the "Draft History of Qing". Despite academic efforts to edit and finalize it, those efforts have been thwarted by political forces.
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Jason Pym
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Alice Poon:
Hi... Another question :) You said that Chen Yuanyuan took the Taoist name Yu An, but all I could find was “寂静”, I was just curious because I wanted to track down the Anfu Garden as I live not far from Kunming. Could you tell me the Chinese for the garden too, if it really exists? The only place I could find here associated with Chen Yuanyuan was 宏覺寺/三聖庵. Thanks!
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