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Title	Tiantan eaves
Description	Close up of two of the three rings of eaves topping the Temple of Heaven's Hall of Prayer for a Prosperous Year. The three sets of conical eaves are unique in Chinese architecture; their roundness signifies Heaven (in contrast to Earth, which is square).
Country	China
Historical Period	China - People's Republic of China 1949 - present
Date of Content	1530; 1751
Photographer/Recorder	Williams, John R., 1968 -
Associated Places	Beijing
Type	still image
Format	image-jpeg
Date Photographed/Recorded	1988
Permissions	This image and its metadata are available for use under the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5" license. You are free to use this work for any noncommercial purpose, providing you acknowledge both "IDEAS: Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies" and "John Williams, History Department, Colorado College." For more information on this license, please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ For uses that fall outside this license, please contact IDEAS.
IDEAS Collection	Beijing 1988
Institution Name	Colorado College
IDEAS Identifier	cocbjn000063
Collection Editor	Lawson, Steve; Withee, Sarah

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