Beijing’s Old Summer Palace is marking the 157th ... Located in the northwestern part of China’s capital city, the exquisite palace, known in Chinese as Yuanmingyuan, was extolled as the ...

The Old Summer Palace providing a seal-collection activity for visitors on its 160th anniversary of massive loot. [Photo/Beijing ... around the world and China, and the ones in the country are ...

Indeed, it can be argued that this event, and Britain’s overall complex relationship with China, has had more ... were taken” from the Summer Palace. The loot is housed across the United ...

The process of research then began…” China’s Cultural Heritage department argues that all items looted from the Summer Palace should ... got lots of valuable loot in the way of watches ...

It's been described as China's ground zero - a place that ... among the most famous items looted from the Summer Palace. The real Chinese loot investigators appear no less determined, even if ...

More than 150 years after British and French troops sacked and razed the Summer Palace, in Beijing ... that even legally purchased items are loot, are answered slowly, if at all.

Beijing's Old Summer Palace ... troops torched the palace after looting it. The destruction of the royal park during the second opium war in 1860 is viewed as one of China's greatest humiliations.