The Wude Palace

ZhangGarden of the last Chinese emperor Puyi rebuilt in 1935.

The former Japanese Concession was established in 1888. The Japanese army occupied the entire city of Tianjin from 1937 until their defeat in 1945.

There are two preserved buildings which attract visitors' attention. They are the ZhangGarden and the JingGarden of the abdicated emperor Puyi.

In 1924, the last emperor of Qing Dynasty, Puyi, was forced to leave the Forbidden City in Beijing and lived in Tianjin until 1931 when he was forcibly taken by the Japanese army to Dalian. The imperial concubine Wenxiu divorced Puyi in Tianjin, which was the first time in Chinese dynastic history that an imperial concubine divorced an emperor.