One ruler of this country was asked to choose his wife from a set of photographs, only to have his first choice rejected as she was considered too poor and too ugly.
One ruler of this country was asked to choose his wife from a set of photographs, only to have his first choice rejected as she was considered too poor and too ugly. In 1927, Herbert C. White published a colorized series of photographs of this country's capital city. Felice Beato took extensive photographs of an exquisite and magnificent garden-palace complex in this country that was put to the torch in a punitive expedition afterwards. In a photograph taken in this country, a bloody, orphaned baby sits in a completely destroyed (*) railway station after it was hit by a bomb on Bloody Saturday. A grainy photograph of two smiling officers posing with their swords in this country first appeared in a newspaper with the associated headline: Contest To Kill 100 People With A Sword. Associated Press photographer Jeff Widener snapped a photograph in this country of an unknown pedestrian with shopping bags obstructing the path of a line of tanks. For 10 points, name this country in which the "Tank Man" photograph captured a moment from protests in its Tiananmen Square.
One ruler of this country was asked to choose his wife from a set of photographs, only to have his first choice rejected as she was considered too poor and too ugly.
China [accept any of the following answers: Qing Dynasty, Empire of the Great Qing, Republic of China, Republic of China, People's Republic of China, People's Republic of China, Qing Chao, Da Qing Diguo, Zhonghua Minguo, Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo; accept Manchukuo on the first clue] 