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

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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