beijing hotels Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/beijing-hotels Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Beijing http://toursmaps.com/beijing.html http://toursmaps.com/beijing.html#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2017 02:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=230362 Beijing Peking present day name Beijing (“northern capital”). The majority of today’s existing buildings and the layout of the city (see below) date from this dynasty. In 1644 Li Zicheng, the leader of a peasant uprising occupied Beijing, but it was soon taken over by the Manchurians. From the middle ofthe 19th c. Beijing was the scene of conflict between the empire and foreign powers. English and French troops destroyed the old summer palace. The government was forced to grant the colonial powers their extra-territorial rights and allow them to establish permanent embassies. During the so-called Boxer uprising revolutionaries occupied

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