But with the Old Summer Palace still in ruins, he instead created a shrine that, more than a century on, is used by the country’s leadership to remind its people of past foreign aggression.

It has been 152 years since Anglo-French Allied Forces burned the Old Summer Palace to the ground, leaving only piles of marble lying on the ground in a desolate atmosphere.

More than 80,000 historical artifacts, along with pieces of the Old Summer Palace, were unearthed as a result of the demolition of surrounding buildings. The objects, including building materials ...

For over 150 years, the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, has been remembered as a humiliating episode in China’s history.

The Old Summer Palace, designed and supervised by emperors themselves and built by the most talented and skilled workers, artisans and artists in ancient China, ...

This photo taken May 9, 2015, shows an aerial view of the New Yuanmingyuan, a newly-built replica of Beijing's Old Summer Palace which was looted and destroyed by French and British forces in 1860 ...

A view shows tourists visiting a newly-built, full-scale replica of the Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan, in Dongyang, Zhejiang province in China on May 9, 2015. The replica ...

Also known as Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace was the main imperial residence of the Yongzheng emperor, who reigned from 1722 to 1735, and of his descendants until British and French troops ...

A full size replica of parts of Beijing's Old Summer Palace opens 1,000 kilometres away from China's capital, state media says, despite managers of the original threatening legal action.

But with the Old Summer Palace still in ruins, he instead created a shrine that, more than a century on, is used by the country’s leadership to remind its people of past foreign aggression.

But with the Old Summer Palace still in ruins, he instead created a shrine that, more than a century on, is used by the country’s leadership to remind its people of past foreign aggression.