Pu Yi Former Residence Description

One of the delights of Tianjin’s center is that you never know what freak of architectural nature might be hiding down any alley. Nowhere is this truer than with Jing Yuan Garden – better known as the last emperor Pu Yi’s house – from 1929 to-1931 – a spacious Spanish-style villa, which looks like it’s escaped a life on the Med and is now hiding down a particularly unexceptional second-tier street. Inside contains a collection of Puyi’s possessions and, as the little plaque tells us, “the building is of great harmony as a whole.”