The replica, partially opened to tourists on Sunday, is aiming to reconstruct 95 percent of the original architecture of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, which was destroyed in 1860 by British and French troops. Even in China, though, memory is selective. The Royal collection has several other items thought to be connected with the Beijing Summer Palace, including Chinese imperial sceptres, brass plaques and a mahogany screen. The ruined imperial garden is coming back to life... A virtual reconstruction of Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, enables visitors to see what it looked like before it fell to ruin. Some members, including the journalist Bowlby, were tortured and murdered. The army tradition was to share out the spoils, with officers and other ranks taking their cut, and some of the cash used to compensate the families of dead or wounded soldiers. However, after the palace was destroyed, the Bridge was reduced to a field of rubble. Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken of a new "partnership of mutual respect and understanding" with China and it's against this backdrop that the Duke of Cambridge will soon visit the country. Eager to witness the war's end, he set off with a delegation of British and French officials - as well as escorting Indian army troops - to negotiate what they assumed would be the Chinese surrender. "We don't actually mention the word loot at all. Experts are also planning to create a smartphone App. China is also focusing increasingly on all the art that was looted by French and British forces - and taken to Europe. But he has collected hundreds of images of looted items on his computer. The two men bonded on their journey towards China as cultural tourists, visiting the pyramids in Egypt. Since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests against communist rule, however, China's leadership has tried to reinforce its authority by encouraging patriotic pride in the country's history - and teaching citizens that only strong government today can prevent a repeat of the 19th Century humiliation by outsiders. Using laser scan technology, researchers have been able to retrieve the appearance and outline of each stone, creating a virtual image of the bridge's original structure. Based on this, we can determine which stone stands next to which, and their original positions. "It's important to go ahead, rather than look back all the time.". The French, who joined in the looting of the palace, have been more open about their regret. But in its heyday, the Old Summer Palace was the pinnacle of imperial Chinese grandeur, covering more than 300 hectares (800 acres) of immaculately curated Beijing terrain. British military museums have many items too. Because of this military power, Bowlby was confident that imperial China's rulers - "effete and faithless Mandarins", he called them - would "soon be suing for mercy". That might have been the end of the pillaging and destruction. With him was Thomas William Bowlby of The Times. Once they had arrived in China Bowlby wrote in his newspaper reports and private diary of his admiration for aspects of Chinese life - its fine buildings and "admirably cultivated gardens". Read about our approach to external linking. It was widely traded and still sits in all kinds of private and public collections. Trump wall: How much has he actually built? But "the beauty of something is inherent in it wherever it happens to be". As everyone in China is taught, it was once the most beautiful collection of architecture and art in the country. By coincidence, one of the story's central characters is Lord Elgin - son of the man who removed the so-called "Elgin marbles" from Greece. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. But having to pay for art that was stolen - as many Chinese see it - causes increasing resentment. "War is a hateful business. The ruined site of the old Summer Palace offers an ideal place to make this point. The life of the tattooed 'hard man' who became 007, Obama joins Biden on last weekend before US election, Joe Biden snaps at 'ugly' Trump hecklers. The Old Summer Palace was known as the “Versailles of the East”, but its glory and magnificence ceased in 1860. Google Tag Manager Oct 01, 2:48 AM EDT Since then, the Old Summer Palace has been in a state of dilapidation and disrepair. "Officers and men seemed to have been seized with temporary insanity," said one witness. And the deputy head of the Yuanmingyuan Society told China’s official news agency Xinhua that building a replica in another part of the country was a “good experiment.” (A partial replica was previously built at a theme park in southern Guangdong province in the 1990s, but unlike the Hengdian version, it was not full size. A new digital reconstruction by a team at Tsinghua University gives a vivid idea of what this extraordinary place looked like when, 155 years ago, a joint British-French army approached Beijing. The palace's Bilan Bridge used to be an elegant stone archway over a flowing stream. A view shows tourists visiting a newly-built, full-scale replica of the Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan, in Dongyang, Zhejiang province in China on May 9, 2015. 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For some time afterwards, memory of what happened faded in Chinese minds as the country went through modernisation, the end of imperial rule, war and communist takeover.

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