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The Peking Legation Quarter was the area in Beijing (Peking), China where a number of foreign legations were located between 1861 and 1959. In the Chinese language, the area is known as Dong Jiaomin Xiang ( simplified Chinese : 东交民巷 ; traditional Chinese : 東交民巷 ; pinyin : Dōng Jiāomín Xiàng ), which is the name of the hutong ...
In total, about 500 citizens of Western countries and Japan resided in the city. The northern side of the Legation quarter was near the Imperial City where the Empress Dowager Cixi resided. The massive Tartar Wall which ringed the entire city of Beijing bordered the south. [1] The eastern and western sides of the Legation Quarter were major ...
The Battle of Peking (Chinese: 北京之戰), or historically the Relief of Peking (Chinese: 北京解圍戰), was the battle fought on 14–15 August 1900 in Beijing, in which the Eight-Nation Alliance relieved the siege of the Peking Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion.
A total of 473 foreign civilians, 409 soldiers from eight countries, and about 3,000 Chinese Christians took refuge in the Legation Quarter. [4] Under the command of the British minister to China, Claude Maxwell MacDonald , the legation staff and security personnel defended the compound with small arms and one old cannon discovered and ...
The legations of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States, Russia and Japan were located in the Beijing Legation Quarter south of the Forbidden City. The Chinese army and Boxer irregulars besieged the Legation Quarter from 20 June to 14 August 1900.
The former Japanese Legation is the earliest surviving building in the Peking Legation Quarter, and is the only 19th-century building in the area that has survived to the present day. [5] During the People's Republic of China period, the building became the dormitory of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Beijing sent a new planning application to Tower Hamlets council to build the embassy near the Tower of London last month, almost two weeks after the new government took power on July 5, according ...
In June 1900, the Boxers invaded Beijing and killed 230 non-Chinese. The Qing commander in chief Ronglu expelled the Boxers from the city. [1] The Qing ordered foreign diplomats and personnel to leave to Tianjin but they refused and stay put in the legation quarter of Beijing.