Chinese imperial palace mulling over legal action against replica
Movie studio which owns sprawling US$5b project says it wants to educate younger generation about past
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Beijing
THE managers of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, looted by British and French troops in the 19th century, are threatening legal action over a Chinese movie studio's sprawling US$5 billion replica, state media said.
In 2007, Hengdian World Studios, the world's largest outdoor film studio, announced it planned to build a multi-billion-dollar replica of Beijing's Old Summer Palace at its headquarters some 1,500 kilometres south of the Chinese capital.
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