👍1903 CHINA BOXER REBELLION QING PRESENTS MONUMENT TO ASSASSINATED GERMAN ENVOY

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After China's loss to the
Eight-Nation Alliance
in 1901,
treaties
were signed between China and eleven nations (the Eight Nations plus
Spain
,
Belgium
and the
Netherlands
).
Prince Chun
, father of the last emperor
Puyi
, travelled to Germany in his official capacity as
ambassador extraordinary
to express the regrets of the
Guangxu Emperor
over the death of Ketteler to
Kaiser Wilhelm II
. A
paifang
or "memorial gate" called the Ketteler Memorial was erected at the location where he fell. Work on this gate began on 25 June 1901 and was completed on 8 January 1903.
On 13 November 1918, two days after Germany signed an
armistice
with the
Allies
, the Ketteler Memorial was officially abolished. The following year, the gate was moved to the present-day
Zhongshan Park
and renamed "The Victory of Justice Gate" (
Chinese
:
公理戰勝牌坊
).
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