Seventeen-arch Bridge, Lake Kunming, Summer Palace, Beijing

Pailou at the Ming tombs, near Beijing

Wu Yue (吳樾) - a would-be assassin, killed by his own bomb, Beijing

Yunhui Yuyu Pailou and Lake Kunming, Summer Palace, Beijing

Men with captive birds

Customs men at the Peking Club in 1904

Customs men at the Peking Club, 1904

Customs men at the Peking Club in 1904

Entrance to the British Legation, Peking

Entrance to the British Legation, Peking

Entrance to the British Legation, Peking

British Legation at Peking

Customs men at the Peking Club, 1904

The Empress Dowager Cixi and others, in a barge, Beihai Park, Beijing

'The Jade River' canal, Legation Quarter, Peking

'The Beggar's Bridge', Qianmen Boulevard, Beijing

Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, Peking

Albert Pirkis, Dr Stephen Bushell and student interpreters, British Legation, Beijing

British Minister Sir Thomas Wade and British Legation staff, Beijing, 1879

Harry, Guy and Walter Hillier at Balizhuang temple near Beijing