Subject: Beijing 北京--History--Siege, 1900--Pictorial works

Foreigners within the gates : the legations at Peking
AuthorMoser, Michael J.Moser, Yeone Wei-Chih
PlaceHong Kong 香港
PublisherOxford University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
TypeBook
Series
ShelfAdmin. Office
Call NumberJX1838.A58 P456 1993
Descriptionxiii, 158 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
NoteMichael J. Moser and Yeone Wei-Chih Moser.
1. Foreigners in the Middle Kingdom. 2. The early legations. 3. Peking and the foreign community in the nineteenth century. 4. The siege of the legations. 5. The aftermath. 6. The Protocol of 1901. 7. Rebuilding the Legation Quarter. 8. The legations and their world: 1901-1949. 9. Postscript.
Endpaper maps: Legation Quarter in the 19th century, Legation Quarter in 1915.

"Foreigners Within the Gates recreates the blossoming, upheaval, and decline of this precariously placed 'little Europe,' from its establishment in the late 1900s, through the violence of the Boxer rebellion, the Japanese occupation of the 1930s, and the Legation Quarter's disappearance in post-war Peking."--dustjacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-155) and index.

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ISBN019585702X
LCCN92-39882
siège de Péking : récits authentiques des assiégés S. Pichon, d'Anthouard, C. Darcy, Matignon, Bartholin, Mathieu, Piot, etc.
AuthorLaur, Francis, 1844-1934
PlaceParis
PublisherSociété des publications scientifiques et industrielles
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageFrench
TypeBook
Series
ShelfStacks
Call NumberDS771.S534 L287 1904
Description442 p., ℓ of plates : ill., ports., maps ; 23 cm.
NoteSiège de Péking : Récits authentiques des assiégés S. Pichon, d'Anthouard, C. Darcy, Matignon, Bartholin, Mathieu, Piot, etc. ; avec photographies de Piry prises pendant le Siège / 150 gravures dans le texte & hors texte par Francis Laur.
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