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In 1988, Qiu went on a Ford Foundation grant to Washington University in St. Louis to work on a book about T.S. Eliot. [9] Eliot was born in St. Louis, and his grandfather founded the university. But in 1989, Qiu and fellow Chinese academics were stunned to watch TV reports of the severe government crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million (equivalent to $509 million in 2023) [ 1 ] were used to finance the event.
Robert E. Hegel (born January 9, 1943; Chinese: 何谷理; pinyin: Hé Gǔlǐ) is an American sinologist specializing in the fiction of late imperial China.He taught at Washington University in St. Louis, from 1975 until his retirement in the spring of 2018 and was made Liselotte Dieckman Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Chinese in 2006.
St. Louis Fair Grounds, site of annual Exposition, in an 1874 print. The Saint Louis Exposition or St. Louis Expo was a series of annual agricultural and technical fairs held in St. Louis' Fairgrounds Park, from the 1850s to 1902. In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a major World's Fair, was held in St. Louis, Missouri. The annual ...
Organization of Chinese Americans St. Louis Chapter; St. Charles County and Partners for Progress; St. Louis County; St. Louis County Economic Council (SLCEC) St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA) World Trade Center - Saint Louis; In 1979, the first sister-city relationship between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China ...
At time of construction, this would be the biggest department store in the St. Louis area. [1] By October 1954, several tenants had been announced for the center, including a local jewelry store, a beauty salon, and a dry cleaners. [2] Famous-Barr opened for business on August 19, 1955. [3]
The 2015 book fair featured Chinese publishers for the first time. [8] [9] For a time, DigiCon from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) ran concurrently with BEA. [10] However, the IDPF was absorbed into the W3C in 2017; [11] no further DigiCon events have been announced, though the W3C holds other conferences on digital publishing.
"The name 'Fair St. Louis' is expected to be marketable to all parts of the country," said Craig Kaminer, a spokesman for the VP Fair Foundation in 1994. "The vision is to create for St. Louis what the Mardi Gras is for New Orleans." [3] "In addition," he said, "having the new name will send a positive message to those who have not supported ...