X-Nico

unusual facts about Northern China


Tolai hare

The Tolai Hare (Lepus tolai) is a species of hare found in Central Asia, Mongolia, and Northern and Central China.


Demilitarized Zone Peace Preservation Corps

The Demilitarized Zone Peace Preservation Corps was a police force created by the Tanggu Truce to patrol and maintain order in the demilitarized zone extending from south of the Great Wall, to a line north east of the Bai River in Hebei province in northern China during the late 1930s.


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Abatai

He then led a raiding force into northern China, advancing into Zhili, Shandong and Jiangsu from 1642 to 1643.

Arthur Henderson Smith

Smith and his wife were attending a missionary conference in Tongzhou in May 1900 when all the missionaries in Northern China found it necessary to seek safety from the Boxers by fleeing to Beijing or Tianjin.

Di people

Di (狄), also called Beidi (北狄) or Northern Di: Zhou Dynasty ethnic groups living in northern China

Ephrem Giesen

In the spring of 1900, as the Boxer Rebellion was unfolding across northern China, Ephrem Giesen was located at Xinzhuang, south of Machang, where a Catholic fortified stronghold had been established.

Faxian

After five months there, Faxian took another ship for southern China; but, again, it was blown off course and he ended up landed at Laoshan, in what is now the Shandong peninsula, in northern China, 30 km east of the city of Qingdao.

House of Yi

The combined effect on China of the opium wars in the south and Japanese naval strikes in the north increasingly led the Japanese to see Korea as a strategic foothold leading into northern China, just as Macau and Hong Kong had been Portuguese and English trade enclaves, respectively, in southern China.

Imitation Song

When Song lost control of northern China to the Jin (金) Dynasty, its capital was moved to Lin'an (modern Hangzhou), where there was a revival of printing, especially literature from Tang left in what was conquered by the Jin Dynasty.

Kang bed-stove

In this picture of a room in a Chinese inn, reproduced from Wandering in Northern China, by Harry A. Franck (Copyright 1923 by the Century Company of New York and London), one can see a man who may be the author sitting at a short-legged table that has been placed on the Kang.

M. alba

Morus alba, the white mulberry, a short-lived, fast-growing, small to medium sized mulberry tree species native to northern China

Nikolai Tretyakov

Promoted to colonel on December 25, 1899, Tretyakov was with the Russian expeditionary forces in the Boxer Rebellion in northern China.

Northern Landscape style

The Northern Landscape style was a manner of Chinese landscape painting centered around a loose group of artists who worked and lived in Northern China during the Five Dynasties period that occupied the time between the collapse of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Song.

P. tabuliformis

Pinus tabuliformis, the Chinese red pine, a pine species native to northern China

Wolfram Eberhard

The next year Eberhard travelled across northern China to Xi'an, the sacred mountain Mount Hua, Taiyuan, and the Yungang Grottoes at Datong.

Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge

Wuhan lies at the heart of Central China and is a hub from transportation between the ancient Chinese heartland in northern China and the trading ports of Guangzhou and Hong Kong in southern China.

XX Bomber Command

Meanwhile, LeMay gained the support of Communist leader Mao Zedong, who controlled parts of northern China.