Foreigners Within the Gates: The Legations at Peking

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This fascinating book describes, through period photographs and text, the history of the foreign legations in the Chinese capital from their establishment in the 1800s to the present. More than simply a description of a place, the book conveys a lively sense of the rich social, political, economic, and religious life of a community that coexisted with—but lived apart from—the surrounding Chinese world.

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This fascinating book describes, through period photographs and text, the history of the foreign legations in the Chinese capital from their establishment in the 1800s to the present. More than simply a description of a place, the book conveys a lively sense of the rich social, political, economic, and religious life of a community that coexisted with—but lived apart from—the surrounding Chinese world.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780195857023
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 5/27/1993
  • Pages: 172
  • Product dimensions: 7.48 (w) x 9.84 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Maps
Figures
Acknowledgments and Credits
1 Foreigners in the Middle Kingdom 1
2 The Early Legations 13
3 Peking and the Foreign Community in the Nineteenth Century 27
4 The Siege of the Legations 41
5 The Aftermath 69
6 The Protocol of 1901 85
7 Rebuilding the Legation Quarter 93
8 The Legations and Their World: 1901-1949 111
9 Postscript 141
Glossary of Chinese Terms 152
Bibliography 153
Index 156
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