The limitation of Qianlong’s borrowed taste for Western architecture and garden arts did not end here. The emperor’s cultural background also did not allow him to understand the importance of the mechanization of the universe with mathematic precision as demonstrated in Baroque architecture. His Majesty had no way of knowing that the analytical geometry setting industrialization in motion would eventually make it possible for European armies to invade China and leave the Yuanming Yuan in ruins. In the end, the European section served no more than as another pleasant environment in which he could stroll, rest, entertain, and assemble treasures of European arts
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