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On this Day in Chinese History; 17 April

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...

On this Day in Chinese History; 16 April

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...

On this Day in Chinese History; 15 April

This day, 15 April, 2013, the Free Trade Agreement between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of Iceland was signed in Beijing. Thiswas the first free trade agreement signed between China and a European...

On this Day in Chinese History; 14 April

This day, 14 April, 2011, the third BRICS leaders’ meeting was held in Sanya, Hainan, with Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma in attendance. It...

On this Day in Chinese History; 13 April

This day, 13 April, 1988, the First Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress passed its decision on the establishment of Hainan Province and its resolution on the establishment of the Hainan Special Economic Zone in an effort to...

On this Day in Chinese History; 12 April

This day, 12 April, in 1847, Rong Hong arrived in New York, USA, to study. Rong (1828-1912), a Cantonese born into a poor peasant family, studied in a church primary school in Macau and the Morrison church school in...

Pears & Poetry! Springtime in Best Kept Secret Water Town; Lili

Way down deep in Suzhou’s south lies the crown jewel in all of China’s Jiangnan water towns. Affording deep contemplation, millennium-old authenticity, untroubled tranquility among the blossoms and credentials in poetry beyond compare; all are about to come knocking...

On this Day in Chinese History; 11 April

This day, 11 April, in 1955, a bomb exploded aboard the Kashmir Princess, or Air India Flight 300, carrying a Chinese and Vietnamese delegation, together with journalists, and flying from Hong Kong to Jakarta, to participate in the Afro-Asian...
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