十九世纪中叶开始，一个侨民群体迅速投入报刊、剧社、图书馆和医院（仁济）等公共事业。现身北京中国书店的英国维多利亚时期政论家、经济学家白芝浩的两卷本《文学研究》，里面夹着两张书签，记录了天津市图书馆的信息。  笔者有两张浅蓝色老书签，上面用英文印着一家天津外侨自办的小型图书馆借阅规定。现代意义上的图书 ...

Set in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, the story follows Liu Hengshun, a police officer in Tianjin with a mysterious past. After losing his parents in a fire, he masters a ...

Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 55, 19 July 1901. Citation: In the presence of the enemy during the battle near Tientsin, China, 13 July 1900, Adams distinguished himself by meritorious ...

Noah Fields Drake returned to Fayetteville late in the summer of 1912, bringing his wife, Mary, and two young daughters, Doris and Vera. A native of Summers, 20 miles to the west, he had attended ...

Next up is “The Great Humanitarian” - Herbert Hoover. Before becoming the 31st president - Hoover was the son of a blacksmith ...

Recently I wrote that Drake began teaching at Imperial Pei Yang University on March 17, 1898; that was actually the date of his arrival in Tientsin. "About the only part of the voyage that I liked ...

A rare one of these imperial stamps came from the German-occupied Chinese post of Tientsin. These stamps were, well… stamped ...

As a big-time race-track and gambling operator, he made enough to build himself a skyscraper in Tientsin, and when the Communists took over, he was tough enough to endure 2½ years in a Red jail ...

This volume contains the seventh edition, first published in 1887. The work is both a survey of Protestant missionary activity in China since the treaty of Tientsin in 1858 and a recruitment pamphlet ...

His journey takes him from a cosseted adolescence, walled up in the Forbidden City, to a playboy existence in Tientsin, reinstatement as puppet emperor of Manchuria, then post-war incarceration ...