Old photos give a new perspective of Beijing

CANBERRA - In Wei Shuge's eyes, Beijing is a city with many stories, some of which are told in the 26 pictures hung on the walls of his exhibition.

Wei is curator of the exhibition Newly Discovered Photographs of Beijing, 1900-1902, which runs through Aug 30 at the Australian Center on China in the World in the Australian National University.

On display are photocopies of pictures taken in the early 1900s, shortly after the end of the Yihetuan Movement and the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance - when troops from Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, Italy and Austro-Hungary entered Beijing.