The Scottish plant-hunter Robert Fortune "discovered" it— in a mandarin's garden of the coastal city of Chusan (Zhoushan)— before he ever saw it growing wild in the mountains in Chusan's province, Zhejiang.
In the controversy over where Germany should seek a base in the Far East, he preferred Chusan, an island in the mouth of Hangzhou Bay.
British troops would remain in Gulangyu and Zhoushan until the Qing government had paid reparations in full (Article XII).
After graduating from secondary school, Zong worked at the Zhoushan salt farm.
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