Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China (32 page)

Pekingers walk their songbirds by the city’s ancient walls

Pamela Werner as a happy three-year-old in Peking

E. T. C. Werner at thirty-five in 1900 (left) and at sixty in 1924 (right)

The Legation Quarter as rebuilt after the Boxer Rebellion of 1900: the exercise grounds were soon to be covered over and become the Badlands

Legation Street, the premier thoroughfare of the quarter

Peking Central Railway Station: to arrive was to be awed by the imperial city

The Grand Hôtel des Wagons Lits

Inside the compound of the British Legation

reproduced by permission of Surrey History Centre

The gates of the French Legation; the ice-skating rink was adjacent

Peking Union Medical College

The Hatamen Gate, the main gateway to the Tartar City

Street vendors in the Tartar City

The Tartar City, a mere stone’s throw from the Legation Quarter yet startlingly different

Ch’ienmen Street, home to Peking’s police headquarters