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The Looting and Destruction of the Old Summer Palace by Anglo-French Troops During the Second Opium War is Taught in China as a Defining Moment of Trauma in the "Century of Humiliation" and the Pinnacle of "Western Barbarism". What's the Contemporary Chinese, British and French View of This Event?

by /u/hahaha01357 in /r/AskHistorians

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