The latest 3-language edition of Foreigners Within the Gates: The Legations at Peking, in Chinese, English, German, just published in December 2020.

Only a stone's throw away from the Imperial Palace, the Legation Quarter of Peking stood for more than half a century as 'a city apart'. Surrounded by thick walls, with entry to Chinese forbidden, the Quarter housed several hundred foreigners who lived in a miniature Europe in the heart of the Chinese capital. The Quarter boasted well-built embassies and fancy clubs which mimicked the latest European styles, maintained its own local government and postal service, and was serviced by a surprisingly large collection of banks and commercial establishments. A painful symbol of China's humiliation at the hands of western 'barbarians', the Legation Quarter was repossessed by the Chinese Government after 1949 and all foreigners were evicted. Little remains of the old Quarter today.

Foreigners within the Gates reconstructs the story of the Peking Legation Quarter — the 'little Europe' placed arrogantly in the heart of the Imperial capital — tracing the Quarter's origins in the 18th century treaties of Tianjin and Peking, through the perilous Siege during the Boxer Rebellion of summer 1900, the rebuilding of the Quarter following the Boxer Settlement, the Japanese occupation of the 1930's, and finally the disappearance of the Quarter following the communist 'liberation'. The book's collection of rare photographs, numerous maps and lively prose provide a dramatic picture of one of the most fascinating encounters between China and the outside world — inside the capital of the Middle Kingdom itself.

城门内的外国人：北京使馆区》是美国人迈克尔·J·莫石和奕瓦娜·莫苇芝的著作，曾先后出版过两次英文版，影响较大，为关于北京使馆区的重要著作。中译本为叶凤美先生翻译。全书主要针对北京使馆区1900年至20世纪这一阶段的历史进行梳理，配有大量精美的历史图片。以一个外国人的视角描述了北京使馆区一个世纪的历史变迁。其中对1900年义和团围攻使馆区的故事有大量描写，极具参考价值。