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2 unusual facts about Changsha


Chai Jing

When she was 15 years old, Chai went to Changsha Railway Institute in Changsha, Hunan Province, majoring in accounting.

The Shian Kian Weekly Review

The Shian Kian Weekly Review(Chinese:湘江评论/湘江評論) as known as Xiangjiang Review, was a weekly review founded by the young Mao Zedong in Changsha, Hunan, On June 14th, 1919.


Central Plains War

Battles in the north were generally in Henan and Shandong and battles in the south were mainly in the area of Yuezhou, Changsha and Hunan province.

Chai Jing

In 1991, she was a student of Changsha Railway Institute (now known as Central South University or "Zhongnan University" Railway Campus), majoring in accounting.

China Poly Group Corporation

Having its affiliated enterprises and projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Changsha, Tianjin, Harbin, Shenyang, Chongqing, Hainan, and Hong Kong etc., the Group Corporation has made significant achievements in capital scale, economic benefits, business management and system construction, characterized by professionalism, scale operation and optimal allocation of resources.

First High School of Changsha

There are many outstanding talents graduated from the First High School of Changsha, including Mao Zedong, Zhu Rongji, Zhou Gucheng, Zhou Libo, Yang Xiaokai, Tan Dun, and 17 members of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

GAC Fiat

The Changsha assembly plant was officially opened on 28 June 2012, in a ceremony attended by Fiat chief executive Sergio Marchionne and representatives of Hunan and Guandong provinces.

Gao Yu

In any case, by 896, when Ma had just been commissioned the acting military governor of Wu'an Circuit (武安, headquartered in modern Changsha, Hunan) (which would eventually form the foundation block for the Chu state) by then-reigning Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, Ma employed Gao as his chief strategist.

Gu Xingqing

In 1937 the Commercial Press in Changsha published Gu’s memoirs on his work as an interpreter during the war in Europe.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

In 1910, he joined the faculty of Yale-China Association's Yali School at Changsha in Hunan Province; but this period of teaching was cut short in 1912 when he was forced to return to the United States for health reasons.

Lei Feng

Born in Wangcheng, Hunan (near the town of Leifeng, Changsha, Hunan, named in his honour), Lei was orphaned at an early age.

Liang Heng

During his studies at the Hunan Teachers' College in Changsha he met Judith Shapiro, an American teacher.

Lost on Journey

Although his mistress wants him to spend Chinese New Year with her in Shijiazhuang (Hebei province), Li feels obligated to return to his hometown, Changsha, to celebrate Chinese New Year with his wife Meili (Zuo Xiaoqing), daughter, and mother.

Ma Xifan

The officers, headed by Yuan Quan (袁詮) and Pan Yue (潘約), welcomed Ma Xifan, who then carried the title of military governor of Zhennan Circuit (鎮南, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi — an honorary title as at that time, Zhennan was a Wu possession) and who was the defender of Lang Prefecture (朗州, in modern Changde, Hunan), to Changsha.

Qingshanqiao Town

Qingshanqiao, Ningxiang, an urban town in Ningxiang County, Changsha City, Hunan Province

Xiaoxiang poetry

Besides the Han Dynasty writers and editors, such as Wang Yi, who contributed to the Chuci, another important Han era poet in the Xiaoxiang tradition was Jia Yi, who was exiled by Han Wendi to Changsha.

Yali School

Brownell Gage, Warren Seabury, Lawrence Thurston, and Arthur Williams, all graduates of Yale College in the 1890s, founded Yale-in-China, and brought the mission to Changsha between 1901 and 1905.

Yasuji Okamura

In 1938, a year after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Okamura was assigned as the commander in chief of the Japanese Eleventh Army, which participated in numerous major engagements in the Second Sino-Japanese War, notably the Battles of Wuhan, Nanchang and Changsha.

Zhu Yunzhong

Zhu Yunzhong (born 1933; in Changsha, Hunan), is a descendant of the Hongwu Emperor and an heir to the Ming Dynasty.


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