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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...