In 1860, Britain’s High Commissioner to China, Lord Elgin, ordered troops to destroy both the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace to avenge the killing of several British envoys to Beijing.

China’s largest Royal Park, the Summer Palace, sprawls over 700 acres and is steeped in history. So to get some perspective on what to see and how to see it, we chatted with a few local scholars ...

The ruined site of the old Summer Palace offers an ideal place to make this point. China is also focusing increasingly on all the art that was looted by French and British forces - and taken to ...

The hashtag "160th anniversary of the sacking of the Old Summer Palace" had earned 330 million views on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo as of Sunday afternoon, with many Chinese netizens ...

A view shows tourists visiting a newly-built, full-scale replica of the Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan, in Dongyang, Zhejiang province in China on May 9, 2015. The replica ...

The hunt is on at the Old Summer Palace in Beijing after one of its stone ... sculptures had changed since he’d last been to see it, China News Agency reported on Wednesday.

In 1860, Britain’s High Commissioner to China, Lord Elgin, ordered troops to destroy both the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace to avenge the killing of several British envoys to Beijing.

In 1860, Britain’s High Commissioner to China, Lord Elgin, ordered troops to destroy both the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace to avenge the killing of several British envoys to Beijing.