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Katrina Leung (陈文英) – Double agent for both U.S. and China; Wayne Lo (駱文) – murderer who perpetrated the shooting at Simon's Rock College of Bard on December 14, 1992, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Danny Pang – private equity manager, accused of running a Ponzi scheme; Little Pete (馮正初) – San Francisco Chinatown ...
List of Chinese leaders; List of leaders of the People's Republic of China; List of people from Lishui; List of Chinese monarchs; List of emperors of the Liao dynasty; List of emperors of the Ming dynasty; List of emperors of the Qing dynasty; List of emperors of the Song dynasty; List of emperors of the Tang dynasty; List of leaders of the ...
Map of the Chinese Han dynasty in 2 CE. Names of non-Chinese peoples and states have been purposely left with their Chinese names (e.g. Dayuan instead of Fergana; Gaogouli instead of Goguryeo) to reflect the fact that knowledge of participants in the Han world order comes almost exclusively from Chinese sources.
The Chinese people were first divided into a caste system of four occupations. 543 BC: The Zheng prime minister Zichan established the state's first written civil code. 520 BC: Ji Gui died. He was succeeded by his son King Dao of Zhou. Dao was murdered by his brother. 519 BC: Dao's brother Ji Gai, King Jing of Zhou became king of the Zhou ...
In 1870, Harper's Weekly claimed 250 Chinese laborers passed through Omaha to build a railroad in Texas. [89] The city's first noted burial of a Chinese person occurred at Prospect Hill Cemetery in July 1874, and an Omaha newspaper noted the local Chinese population was 12 men and one woman. In 1890, Omaha had 91 Chinese residents, and the city ...
The Chinese territory that existed between the 1750's after the Qing Dynasty had completed its overall unification of China and 1840's before the aggression and encroachment on China by the imperialist powers is the territorial and geographical scope and range of China, a logical and natural formation from the historical process over thousands ...
Dent's Fountain, also known as City Hall's Fountain (near the rear side of present-day Bank of China Building), was built in 1864 and demolished in 1933. [2] Streets of Hong Kong, 1865 Beaconsfield Arcade, Hong Kong, c.1890. The building on the left is the HSBC building (second design)
In 2004 a coin produced by the Sui people of Guizhou was discovered dating to the Northern Song dynasty most likely produced between 1008 and 1016, this coin had the inscription dà zhōng xiáng fú (大中祥符) on one side and the word "wealth" written in Sui script on the other side, as this is the only known coin produced by the Sui ...