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Legation Street in Peking was home to a number of foreign representative offices between 1861 and 1959.
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Peking's Legation Street became the center for foreign representative (e.g. colonial) offices after China's defeat in the Second Opium War (1856-1860). These offices called were protected by large walls. Chinese residents were moved out of the area. Thus the Legation Quarter became an area exclusively for foreigners and was resented by Chinese nationalists who believed it to be a symbol of foreign interference.  |
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