Throwback Thursday: Which Chinese Royal Visited the 1904 World’s Fair?

Jan 16, 2020 |

The bespectacled, sweet-faced Prince Pu Lun—for a time, a contender for the Chinese throne—was only the third member of the Chinese royal family to visit the United States. The 29-year-old prince came as an emissary to the 1904 World’s Fair, breaking China’s long isolation from the West. The Fair’s Chinese Pavilion was the first grand-scale […more]

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