(Graphic content!) A travel photo album of China, incl. the funeral of the Guangxu Emperor and visit of the Dalai Lama to Beijing, dated 1907-1909

Dim.: 32 x 24 cm (the album)
Dim.: 16,5 x 12 cm (the largest photo)
Dim.: 8,5 x 10,5 cm (the smallest photo)

In 1909, the 13th Dalai Lama, having fled Tibet in the wake of the British invasion and subsequent Chinese military advance, returned from exile in Mongolia and northern China. During this period he travelled extensively and was granted an imperial audience in Beijing in 1908 with Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor. 
With nominal approval from the Qing court, he re-entered Lhasa in December 1909. This restoration proved short-lived, however, as Chinese troops reoccupied the city in 1910, forcing him once again into exile, this time to India.
While in exile, the Dalai Lama journeyed through Mongolia and eastern Tibet before approaching Beijing, where he was received with the honours accorded to a sovereign by Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor in October 1908. According to some historians, this audience symbolically marked the end of his temporal authority in the eyes of the Qing dynasty.

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