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Photos: 故宫 Forbidden City, Beijing

Want to see more? For more photos from the Forbidden City, visit the 天安门广场 Tian’anmen Square and 故宫 Forbidden City location pages.

In the middle of Beijing, China, sits the Forbidden City (故宫), which served as the home of emperors and the political center of the Chinese government for nearly 500 years.

The imperial palace took just 14 years to build, but it is massive. Its 980 buildings cover 720,000 square meters (7,800,000 square feet). In 1987, the Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987, and contains the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world. If you make it to Beijing, be sure to stop by for a tour, and don’t forget to add photos to your Instagram Photo Map!

cassiesteele:

need this on my entire body. and face.

jonnibegood:

If you’re not bootlegging season 3 from random, ghetto websites, you should be.

gorgeous 

ancientmystery:

this-is-not-native:

With Halloween just around the corner (yay!!), I figured it was time to bring back this rad campaign from Ohio University.

There are endless cute, sexy, funny, even offensive costumes that don’t perpetuate racist stereotypes. There is really no excuse.

glad to see this campaign circulating again this year.

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asianhistory:

A shocked mandarin in Manchu robe in the back, with Queen Victoria (UK),William II (Germany), Nicholas II (Russia), Marianne (France), and a samurai (Japan) cutting up a king cake with Chine (“China” in French) written on it. French Political Cartoon on Imperialism.

The phrase “sick man of Asia” or “sick man of East Asia” originally referred to China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when it was riven by internal divisions and forced by the great powers into a series ofUnequal Treaties, culminating in the Japanese invasion of China during World War II. The phrase was intended as a parallel to “sick man of Europe”, referring to the weakening Ottoman Empire during the same period. 

Early in the 19th century, serious internal weaknesses developed in the Qing dynasty, greatly exacerbated and taken advantage of by Western powers. These intentionally opened China up to Western, Japanese, and Russian imperialism. In 1839, upon a flimsy British pretense, China found itself fighting the First Opium War with Britain. China was defeated, and in 1842, agreed to the humiliating provisions of the Treaty of Nanjing. Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain, and certain ports, including Shanghai and Guangzhou, were opened to British trade and residence. Britain’s demands included most-favored nation status. In 1856, the Second Opium War broke out. The Chinese were again defeated, and now forced to the terms of the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin. The treaty opened new ports to trade and allowed foreigners to travel in the interior. Christians gained the right to propagate their religion—another means of Western penetration. The United States and Russia later obtained the same prerogatives in separate treaties.

Toward the end of the 19th century, China appeared on the way to territorial dismemberment and economic vassalage—the fate of India’s rulers that played out much earlier. Several provisions of these treaties caused long-standing bitterness and humiliation among the Chinese: extraterritoriality (meaning that in a dispute with a Chinese person, a Westerner had the right to be tried in a court under the laws of his own country), customs regulation, and the right to station foreign warships in Chinese waters.

— Wikipedia

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Don’t move, I am police (使用Instagram拍摄)

Modern Shanghai, but I don’t like it. (使用Instagram拍摄)

Traditional way of selling chairs in Shanghai (使用Instagram拍摄)

FX week in Shanghai, the issue is the Internationalization of Chinese Yuan (使用Instagram拍摄)

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Congratulations Queen Elizabeth II on your diamond jubilee!

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oldrowley:

chinupstandtall:

shut-up-merlin:

youknowyourebritishwhen:

Queen Elizabeth II firing an SA80

THE QUEEN IS A BAMF

Badass.

Ladies and gentlemen, the British monarchy.

biubiubiu…

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beginningoftheendfrench:

Save Arizona, she has to live season 9 !

Sign the petition !!! And reblog this !

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she has to live season 9!!!

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imperialjapanesehistory:

Breaching the walls of Nanking 1937

And then Japanese Army killed 300 thousand Chinese in that city. If you are Japanese, you’d better not visit Nanking, since you are not welcome.