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Example sentences for: legation

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Empress Dowager Cixi saw to a complete restoration in 1886, but the Western armies returned in 1900 in retaliation for the siege of the Foreign Legation during the Boxer Rebellion.
In 1900 the Legation Quarter was attacked by the Boxers, a radical nationalist group that had the tacit support of the Qing court.
Thereafter, the Legation Quarter exercised complete control over its own affairs, becoming its own foreign city within the city of Beijing.
Located along Taijichang Dajie (the former Customs Street), directly south of Dongchang’an Jie (Chang’an Avenue East), are the old Austrian Legation (now the Institute of International Studies), the Italian Legation (now the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries), the private Peking Club (now the Beijing People’s Congress), and the French Legation and French Barracks (now the offices of the Chinese Workers Union).
North up Zhengyi Lu (the former Canal Street) back toward Chang’an Avenue are the former Japanese Legation (now the Beijing Mayor’s office) and the British Legation, once the largest Western stronghold in Beijing (occupied from 1860 to 1959), now the stronghold of the Chinese security services.