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.

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 ...

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 ...

“Summer Palace” director Lou Ye and producer Nai An have been banned from making films in China for five years each, as punishment for submitting the film to the Cannes Film Festival before it ...

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.

French and British troops burned down the Old Summer Palace in 1860. China’s Communist Party-led government considers its ruins a remembrance of historical humiliation at the hands of foreign ...

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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 ...

However, there’s an unmistakable feeling throughout “Summer Palace” that Lou is deliberately pressing hot buttons to cater to Western auds. If the pic does end up being banned in China ...

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.