To a Chinese, all these things seem vaguely familiar, yet also bizarre and alien. Today, as the world grows ever smaller, the Chinese style expressed overseas still has an element of the romance of a declining empire. But the appearance of today's Chinese palaces is no longer so phantasmagorical, and they are no longer reserved for the sole enjoyment of royalty and rich folk.
今天，世界的距離越來越近，海外的中國風格或許仍帶著些許「末代皇帝」的浪漫情調，但是樣貌已然不再充滿奇想，而這些中國宮殿也不再是王公貴冑的專享。