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FOR THE FOREIGNERS living there, turn-of-the-century Peking remained a "Forbidden City." The pleasures of the hidden quarters, lying in wait for the foreign touch, only suggested the more refined, if more hidden, pleasures of the Imperial count. With their triumph over the native Boxer rebels in 1900...
Yet the real fame of Backhouse belonged not to his contemporaries but to history. The Englishman co-authoredChina Under the Empress Dowager,a unique insider's view of late 19th century Imperial politics, based on "The Diary of His Excellency Ching-Shan," a man of the court. Just before publication...
At the bronze lions in Peking's Forbidden City, who else but the world's most lionized soccer player? The mighty Pelé and the New York Cosmos also walked on the Great Wall, toured the Imperial Palace and visited Mao's tomb. The official reason for...
The event was surrounded by all the relish and trimmings that Jimmy Carter could concoct. In the pillared, chandeliered, flag-draped Hall of the Americas in the Pan American Union building, Carter and Panamanian Strongman General Omar Torrijos Herrera signed two treaties (TIME cover, Aug. 22). The first gradually cedes...
In fact, Leys makes a convincing case for his charge that Peking itself is "a murdered town, a disfigured ghost of what was once one of the most beautiful cities in the world." The fabulous imperial Forbidden City remains; so does the exquisitely harmonious Temple of Heaven -marred only by...