Lost Dreams in Yuanmingyuan is the work of Bentham, a female writer living in France. It appeared several times in the mid-term exam. This article begins with a son's proposal to go to Yuanmingyuan, and compares the now commercialized Yuanmingyuan with the Yuanmingyuan in his memory. Then it was written in Yuhuatai and Jacky. The whole article expresses dissatisfaction with the excessive commercial development of historical sites, and also expresses deep concern about the phenomenon of ignoring the national justice and lacking the consciousness of national progress.

The loss of dreams in Yuanmingyuan refers not only to the author's loss of dreams in Yuanmingyuan, but also to his anxiety and disappointment that the historic sites bearing national humiliation have been over-commercially developed, and he has forgotten the national justice and national progress.