Pavilions, corridors, rockeries, a belvedere, a teahouse, a Buddhist hall and more subtle settings provided a retreat amid ...

with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), constitutes a priceless testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing ...

The Qing were the last dynasty close dynastyA series of rulers ... Jesuits to his court for their knowledge of mapmaking, painting and medicine. Jesuits are members of the Roman Catholic Society ...