Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section & Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. 1949, Plan of Tientsin War Office, [London] viewed 14 October 2024 ...
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 ...
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The Hoovers (future president Herbert and his wife, Lou) were still in Tientsin but likely to go to Japan or London, Drake reported to Branner. The Imperial Pei Yang University had no prospect of ...
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 ...
1855: Premiere of Franz Listz’s symphonic poem “Prometheus”. 1859: Birth of French philosopher Henri Bergson. 1860: The Second Opium War ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the ...
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 ...