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Peking Legation Quarter

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20: 400:. The foreign population in Beijing was never more than two to three thousand people (not counting foreign soldiers), compared to the 60,000 non-Chinese who lived in Shanghai in 1930. (The American civilians resident in Beijing in 1937 numbered about 700.) Rather the population that Beijing attracted included, in addition to the diplomats working in the Legations and the soldiers guarding them, a sizable number of scholars, artists, and aesthetes, especially in the early 1930s. They were attracted by the ancient Chinese culture preserved in Beijing and leisurely living for very little money. 217: 392:
diplomat in 1907. The ubiquitous Protestant missionaries, mindful of the anti-missionary and anti-Christian fervor of the Boxers, began to turn away from proselytizing, and more toward education, health, and women's issues in attempting to accelerate a century of very slow progress in achieving their goal of making China into a Christian nation. A few foreign businessmen came to Beijing and many foreign enterprises were located in the Legation Quarter, but Beijing never became a mercantile center for foreign companies comparable to
557:. The Marco Polo Bridge was about 20 km (12 mi) west of the Legation Quarter. More fighting ensued and on August 8, the victorious Japanese army marched into Beijing. Foreigners observed the fighting outside Beijing from the roof of the Peking Hotel. The legations ordered all their citizens to take refuge in the Legation Quarter. A "polyglot assortment" of people showed up of "missionaries, Eurasians, Chinese and Russian wives of Americans" and dozens of White Russians at the American Legation, by then called an 367: 28: 330: 581:, 320 km (200 mi) south of Beijing. The group, ranging in age from six months to 85 years old and including many missionaries, doctors, scholars, and businessmen, were allowed to take only what they could carry and were marched past Chinese crowds assembled to see the humiliation of the foreigners. The foreign population of Beijing was interned in Weixian until the end of World War II. 205: 423:
with temporary passes from guards at every entrance to the Legation Quarter. It was a leisurely life for diplomats, their guards, and other foreigners, who had legions of servants and for whom life consisted of a "perpetual merry-go round of parties....One hardly saw any Chinese guests among the crowd....Riding and horse racing", and a "delightful immorality" prevailed.
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is a tourist destination, is protected by municipal artifact preservation orders, and now features several fine dining restaurants, including one located in the former American legation, and retail shops. Prominent buildings from this time still standing is the old main Beijing Railway Station building from 1903, today housing the
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For the Europeans or Americans visiting or living in the Legation Quarter, it was a familiar environment of paved streets, western architecture, lawns, trees, social clubs, bars and restaurants. Chinese servants of foreigners were allowed to live in the Legation quarter, but others could only enter
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of 1901 officially ended the Boxer Rebellion. China was forced to pay a large indemnity to the foreign powers. Article VII of the Protocol said that "the quarter occupied by the legations shall be considered as one specially reserved for their use and placed under their exclusive control, in which
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building, were demolished for road expansion. Some buildings are occupied by government institutions. A number of modern high-rise buildings have also been built, dramatically changing the area's appearance. Nevertheless, as Beijing's most significant collection of Western-style buildings, the area
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in 1928 which reduced the political importance of Beijing. Beijing (northern capital) became Beiping (northern peace). The diplomats in Beiping, enjoying the delights of the Legation Quarter, resisted moving their legations to Nanjing, commuting instead between the two cities, a trip that took days
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In the years after the Boxer Rebellion, foreign influence increased in Beijing, a conservative bastion of China. Missionaries, tourists, artists, soldiers, and businessmen came in larger numbers to visit or reside in the Legation Quarter. The "place just crawls" with "globetrotters" said a British
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princes. However, in 1860, Beijing was "in a wretched state of dilapidation and ruin, and scarcely one of their palatial buildings is not falling into decay." Legation Street in 1900 was still "a straggling unpaved slum of a thoroughfare, along which one occasionally sees a European picking his way
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of 1900. After the Boxer Rebellion, the Legation Quarter was under the jurisdiction of foreign countries with diplomatic legations (later most commonly called "embassies") in the quarter. The foreign residents were exempt from Chinese law. The Legation Quarter attracted many diplomats, soldiers,
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In 1861, the British legation was established in the residence of Prince Chun, the French legation was established in the residence of Prince An, and the Russian legation was established in the existing Russian quarters of the Orthodox Church. In 1862, the American legation was established in the
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after 1905. At the end of World War I in 1918, the U.S. guard contingent consisted of 222 men. The Japanese had 180 men and the British 102. Other countries had smaller numbers of soldiers. Those numbers for the U.S. gradually increased to reach a total of 567 Marines on December 31, 1937, the
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to "have scrambled eggs and dance with the Russian girls." An Italian diplomat condemned the White Russians: "The prestige of the white race fell precipitously when Chinese could possess a white woman for a dollar or less, and Russian officers in tattered uniforms begged at the doors of Chinese
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and treaty ports such as Shanghai, but a few ended up in Beijing. In 1924, the Chinese government recognized the government of the Soviet Union and the majority of White Russians in China who refused to become Soviet citizens were rendered stateless, thus subject to Chinese law unlike other
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gate, just across the inner city walls from the Legation Quarter. Foreign soldiers patrolled the streets of the Legation Quarter, and Chinese houses and property had been expropriated or purchased. A wall had been constructed around the Legation Quarter and outside the wall a grassy area, a
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Most of the buildings, Chinese and foreign-owned, in the Legation Quarter were damaged or destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion. The area was quickly rebuilt and became more European. In 1902, legations had been rebuilt and expanded, Legation Street had been paved, and the
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However, in the opinion of many, the "latent hatred of the foreigner" by the Chinese was in no way diminished. Relationships between foreigners and Chinese were mostly superficial, with few successful efforts to "bridge the gap which separates white & yellow."
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Although some of the White Russians arrived with their fortunes intact, most were penniless and due to ethnic prejudices and their inability to speak English were unable to find jobs. To support themselves and their families, many of the younger women became
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for the remainder of World War II. The civilian foreigners remaining in Beijing were relatively undisturbed until February 1943 when they received a letter ordering them to assemble in the (former) American legation to be transported by railroad to
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A departing Marine in the late 1920s described the leisurely life of the legation guards. You "get the afternoons off....You don't make your own bed; you don't shine your own shoes; you don't fill your own canteen; you don't shave yourself; the
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increase being due to increased political instability in north China. The legation guards had the task of defending the Legation Quarter from a repetition of the Boxer Rebellion, and also securing the roads and railroad from Beijing to
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in 1931, engaged in a brief war with Chinese forces near Shanghai in 1932, and steadily encroached on the area around Beijing. World War II in East Asia properly began on July 7, 1937, when Japanese and Chinese soldiers clashed in the
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between the ruts and puddles with the donkeys and camels." A number of foreign enterprises in addition to the legations had been established in the quarter, including two large stores catering to Europeans, two foreign banks, the
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Looking north, the British Legation is the large building on the left side of the Imperial Canal. About 1900. Many Chinese people lived in the Legation Quarter in addition to the foreign diplomats and businessmen.
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subsequently acquired the premises and established its office there in 1908. In 1917, the bank completed a new office building on the same location. To its immediate west is the former office of the
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During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the Legation Quarter was besieged by Boxers and the Qing army for 55 days. The Siege of the Legations was lifted on August 14 by a multi-national army, the
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The Legation Quarter was rectangular in shape, approximately 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) east to west and 700 metres (2,300 ft) north to south. The southern boundary was the
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The White Russian women mostly worked in the "Badlands" area adjoining the Legation Quarter on the east, centered on Chuanban Hutong (alley). The American explorer
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The Boxer Protocol gave the legations the right to station soldiers in the Legation Quarter. The United States usually had the largest contingent, consisting of
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The Chinese government had long denied the European countries and the United States a diplomatic presence in the imperial capital of Beijing. However, the
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Chinese shall not have the right to reside and which may be made defensible." The Protocol also established the exact boundaries of the Legation Quarter.
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on December 8, 1941 (Asian time) foiled the planned evacuation. The 203 American Marine guards remaining in the Legation Quarter, Tianjin, and
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Beijing RR station, 1901. The inner city walls are on the left side of the station and the Legation Quarter is on the other side of the wall.
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After World War II, some of the internees at Weixian returned to Beijing and attempted to re-establish pre-war institutions such as the
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do it for you. You get waited on hand and foot." He added however, that he was leaving because China was not a "white man's country."
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In the late 19th century the eleven foreign delegations were scattered among modest Chinese houses and opulent palaces inhabited by
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army consolidated its rule over China and the growing influence of an increasingly aggressive Japan. The capital was moved to
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to some extent. The percentage in Beijing may have been higher than Shanghai as economic opportunities were more limited.
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and other events in postwar Chinese history most of the European-style buildings of the Legation Quarter were destroyed.
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Chia Chen Chu (1944), "Diplomatic Quarter in Peiping," A Dissertation submitted to the University of Ottawa, pp. 5-8
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The people of the Legation Quarter suffered a series of political shocks: the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to
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survey in Shanghai in 1935 found that 22% of Russian women between 16 and 45 years of age were engaging in
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moved ever closer. On January 23, 1949, the Nationalist forces in Beijing surrendered to the Communists.
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who flooded into China after World War I and into the early 1920s after their defeat in the
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An exception to the privileged status of the foreigners in the Legation Quarter were the
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Shen Yuanfang and Edwards, Penny (2002), "The Harbin Connection: Russians from China",
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Former place in Beijing where many foreign diplomatic missions were located (1861-1959)
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on the left and the Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits on the right. Probably 1920s or 1930s.
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government to permit diplomatic representatives to live in Beijing. The area around
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were located between 1861 and 1959. In the Chinese language, the area is known as
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https://www.tour-beijing.com/blog/beijing-travel/how-to-visit-dong-jiao-min-xiang
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Europeans, Americans, and Japanese living in China who enjoyed the principles of
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said he frequented the "cafes of somewhat dubious reputation" with the explorer
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Cranmer-Byng, J. L. (1962), "The Old British Legation at Peking, 1860-1959,"
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effectively ended the special status of the Legation Quarter, and with the
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Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with the Qing dynasty
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Beijing in 1900 was surrounded by high walls broken by many gates (
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Letcher, pp. 17-20; "Tales of Old China: Census and Population",
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established since the 1870s in various countries that China had
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Port of last resort : the diaspora communities of Shanghai
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had a short-lived legation in the area, from 1903 to 1905. The
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Dongjiaomin Catholic Church, also known as St. Michael's Church
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Office of the Macau Special Administrative Region in Beijing
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was opened for the establishment of foreign legations. The
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marines at Beijing to protect the Legation Quarter, c. 1910
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However, the area suffered much vandalism during the
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Foreigners within the Gates: The Legations at Peking
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Beijing
China
legations
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
hutong
Dongcheng District
Tiananmen Square
siege of the International Legations
Boxer Rebellion
Sinophiles
World War II
Great Leap Forward
Yuan dynasty
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
Grand Canal
rice
Beijing
the south
Ming dynasty
tributary missions
Vietnam
Mongolia
Korea
Burma

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