[Daughter of Roosevelt Alice Roosevelt] Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (hereinafter referred to as Alice), the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. On July 8, 1905, Alice followed the diplomatic mission led by Taft, who was the Secretary of the Army at the time, and took the ocean-going ship "Manzhouli" from Washington, U.S., via San Francisco and Hawaii, and visited Japan, the Philippines, China and Japan. Korea. (This is a group of photos reflecting Alice's visit to China)
[Alice Roosevelt] The entire delegation has 83 people, including 35 U.S. Congressmen, 7 U.S. Senators, and prominent social figures. Although Alice Only one of the members, but she is the image ambassador of the delegation. Not only that, in public reports about this delegation, Alice has always been the subject of key reports, and the public has also focused more attention on her.
[Side view of Alice Roosevelt] On July 25, the "Manzhouli" arrived in Japan. The head of the ship, Taft, as a mediator, successfully persuaded Japan to end the Russo-Japanese War through peace negotiations with the defeated Tsarist Russia. Soon, the delegation visited the Philippines and China. After arriving in Guangzhou, the delegation was divided into two. One route led by delegation leader Taft to Guangzhou and Shanghai to negotiate with local officials on lifting the boycott of American goods; on the other route, President Roosevelt’s personal representative, Alice Ribbon, went north to Beijing.
[A group photo of the US delegation to China on the ocean-going ship "Manzhouli"] On September 11, Alice and her entourage arrived in Tianjin and were welcomed by the guard of honor of the New Army of the Qing Dynasty. The next day, Alice and her party arrived in Beijing by train from Tianjin. In her autobiography, Alice disclosed what she saw and felt in Beijing. The first building she saw when she entered Beijing was the southeast turret. At that time, the turret was being repaired because when the Eight-Power Allied Forces attacked Beijing, the roof of the building was damaged. Shelling.
[Alice on the "Manzhouli" ocean-going ship] To Alice's surprise, they received a grand reception from the Empress Dowager Cixi and regarded her as an "American princess." After arriving in Beijing, Alice did not go to see the Empress Dowager Cixi immediately.Instead, he was arranged to visit places such as the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. In the evening, Alice and her party were arranged to live in the Summer Palace.
[Alice arrives in Tianjin] At that time, the Chinese elites all traveled in sedan chair. In order to show the importance of the delegation, Empress Dowager Cixi arranged a sedan chair for Alice so that she could avoid the labor of walking. Alice is also very satisfied with arranging her own rest room. "The Chinese palace is like all other Chinese houses. A group of single-story tall halls are built around the courtyard, and each hall is divided into three independent rooms. I live in a separate hall by myself. My bedroom is in the side room of the hall. The decorated ceiling makes the bedroom appear smaller and lower than the central room."
[Alice takes the train to Beijing] Alice and her party The dinner party was also held in the Summer Palace. "All kinds of Chinese and Western foods alternate constantly. I only ate my favorite Chinese dishes, especially shark fin, which was rinsed with rose wine. The rose wine tastes very good, similar Sake or very smooth liqueur, and the wine is very strong..." It is hard to imagine that the Empress Dowager Cixi used shark fin and rose wine to entertain Alice, which shows how luxurious her life was back then.
[Alice arrived at Xiyuan Yiluan Hall in a sedan chair] In the 11th year of Guangxu (1885), Empress Dowager Cixi began to build a dormitory in Xiyuan, Beijing, as a home for her rejuvenation after she returned to power. The palace was not named at the beginning, because the main hall was in the form of two volumes before and after, so everyone called it the two-volume palace. On April 18th, the 14th year of Guangxu, the name of the two-volume hall was changed to Yiluan Hall, and the plaque was hung on the 8th day of June.
[Alice and her party enter the Xiyuan Yiluan Hall] Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu met with Alice and her party. In Alice's diary, she had her own evaluation of the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, calling the Empress Dowager Cixi "capable, sharp and majestic", but described Emperor Guangxu with the words "dull-eyed".
[Ren Shou Palace in the Summer Palace] After the meeting, Empress Dowager Cixi invited Alice to visit the Summer Palace, "The Queen Mother not only joined their party,They also rewarded them with valuable gifts and expressed their high respect for the United States and greetings to President Roosevelt. "On September 18, Alice ended her visit to Beijing and returned to Tianjin, and then returned to China by boat from Tianjin.
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