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On this Day in Chinese History; 23 April

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This day, 23 April, 1895, Tsarist Russia, together with the German and French ministers, sent a note to Japan, advising that it abandon the clause in the Treaty of Shimonoseki that ceded China’s Liaodong Peninsula to Japan, while the...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 22 April

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This day, 22 April, in 1958, construction of the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tianamen Square in Beijing was completed. Having taken almost 6 years to build, the 37.94-metre tall obelisk weighs over 10,000 tonnes and is comprised...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 21 April

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This day, 21 April, in 1948, the then Chinese government signed a provisional application to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that would later become the World Trade Organiasation (WTO). However, the Taiwan authorities arbitrarily  withdrew...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 20 April

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This day, 20 April, in 1949, the KMT government finally refused to sign the domestic peace agreement demanded by Mao Zedong. 3 days later, the People’s Liberation Army successfully crossed the Yangtze River to enter Nanjing and defeat the...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 19 April

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This day, 19 April, in 1970, when Prime Minister Zhou Enlai met veteran Japanese politician Kenzo Matsumura, he said, “The Chinese people respect the Japanese people. We are willing to live in friendship with the peace-loving Japanese people from...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 18 April

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This day, 18 April, 1955, the Afro–Asian Conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia. With a total of 29 Asian and African countries participating, Zhou Enlai spoke of “seeking common ground while reserving differences”, expounding the basic foreign policy of...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 17 April

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This day, 17 April, 1895, the Qing Dynasty government was humiliated in to signing the Treaty of Shimonoseki as a way to end the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Ceded to Japan as part of the Treaty were the Liaodong...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 16 April

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This day, 16 April, in 1992, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Military Engineering Brigade arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to participate in United Nations’ peacekeeping operations. The 400-strong brigade repaired Highways 4 and 6, which were severely damaged by...
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About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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