The former home of the last emperor of China

After the last emperor of China, Puyi, was ousted from the Forbidden City he for a while lived in this house. Parts of the house is now a teahouse, an overpriced one if you ask me, and a souvenir shop.

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Beijing 2016 part III - a bit of this and that

July 5th 2016
From Tiananmen Square via the Marco Polo Bridge to an apartment I used to live in In the previous two blogs (click here or here if you wish to read them) from the trip my mother and I did to Beijing I have covered several great historical places. N ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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