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The film, which purports to explore the circumstances under which a celebrated anthropologist, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), disappeared among Rwandan gorillas and emerged two years later as a mute and wild-eyed killer of park rangers, is loaded with radical credos--ideas evocative of Kafka, deep ecology, and Dian Fossey at her most gorillaphilic.
The first hall of the Outer Court, the Hall of Great Harmony (Tai He Dian), contains the emperor’s Dragon Throne.
The Hall of Clocks, located in the Hall of Worshipping Ancestors (Feng Xian Dian), contains the imperial collection of timepieces, many of them 18th-century gifts from England, America, and Europe.
The final hall of the Outer Court, the Hall of Preserving Harmony (Bao He Dian), is where emperors received China’s best students from the annual imperial examinations that determined who would enter the bureaucracy.
One of China’s most remarkable architectural works survives from that era of imperial ritual, the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (Qinian Dian), a circular hall with blue-tiled roofs capped by a golden sphere.