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Wangshi Garden, Suzhou, Jiangsu

Wangshi (Master of the Nets) Garden (网师园) is a key cultural relic site under state protection, occupying 0.53 hectares on Shiquan Street in Suzhou. Its predecessor was the Wanjuan (Ten-Thousand Volumes) Hall, alias Yuying (Fisherman's Retreat), owned by Shi Zhengzhi, a book collector of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). During Emperor Qianlong's reign of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the retired official Song Zongyuan bought the garden and named it the Wangshi (Master of the Nets) Garden. (More...)