• The Occupation of Ningbo was the five-month period in 1861 and 1862 during which the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom successfully occupied the city of Ningbo during...
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    The Battle of Ningpo was an unsuccessful Chinese attempt to recapture the British-occupied city of Ningbo (Ningpo) during the First Opium War. British...
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    by the Royal Navy on the city. Near the end of 1861 the Taipings launched a final Eastern Expedition. Ningbo was easily captured on 9 December, and Hangzhou...
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    Kaimingjie germ weapon attack (category Military history of Ningbo)
    Japan in October 1940 against the Kaiming Street area of Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. A joint operation of the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 and Unit 1644...
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    represented the skilled workers of Shanghai. These native place associations belonged to the top of Shanghainese society. The Ningbo and Jiangsu native place...
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  • during the Tang and Song dynasties. Most of the trade was done by foreign merchants coming to Ningbo. Ningbo is one of China's oldest cities, with a history...
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    evacuate far away deep inward China. 90% of Ningbo's population had already fled before battle started.: 49  Most of China's industry had already been captured...
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    Morris Chang (category Businesspeople from Ningbo)
    1931) is an American businessman and electrical engineer, originally from Ningbo, China. He built his business career first in the United States and then...
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  • Ding Lei (category Businesspeople from Ningbo)
    Kingdom. As of April 2021, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Ding's fortune to be $35.8 billion. Ding was born in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province...
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    Wang Shu (category Academic staff of China Academy of Art)
    projects include the Ningbo Museum of Art (2005), the Xiangshan campus of the China Academy of Art (2007) and the Old Town Conservation of Zhongshan Street...
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  • George Zhu, or Zhu Zhaojiang, is Chinese businessman and president of Transsion Holdings. Zhu was born in Kaiping, China. He founded Tecno Telecommunications...
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    Hangzhou (redirect from Capital of Zhejiang)
    of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northeastern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo....
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    Zhang Shichuan (category Businesspeople from Ningbo)
    in 1953 or 1954. Zhang Shichuan was born Zhang Weitong (张伟通) in Beilun, Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Shichuan was his courtesy name, originally written with...
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  • could also mean the Ningbo Jewish community was vibrant and observant. The descendant of Ningbo Jewish community moved out of Ningbo to Shanghai and Hong...
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    dynasty decreed that Ningbo was the only place where Japanese–Chinese relations could take place. Ningbo, therefore, was the destination of many Japanese embassies...
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    Run Run Shaw (category Businesspeople from Ningbo)
    Medicine and Mathematical Sciences. Shaw was born in Ningbo city, as the youngest of the six sons of Ningbo city textile merchant who was based in Shanghai...
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    In 1865, McCartee moved back to Ningbo, China, but others have followed in his footsteps. There was a burst of growth of Christianity in the late 19th century...
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    Portuguese could avoid the Pearl River and inched towards Quanzhou and Ningbo. But as they failed to establish trading relationships with the Chinese...
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    OCBC Bank (category Banks of Singapore)
    its stake in the renamed Bank of Ningbo to 20% (the maximum allowed) in 2014. In December 2021, nearly 470 customers of OCBC lost a combined S$8.5 million...
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  • Ying Fang (category Musicians from Ningbo)
    incapable of vulgarity; her dignity is unshakeable, and her powers of persuasion are sovereign." Born in Ningbo, China, Fang earned a bachelor of music degree...
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    Karl Gützlaff (category People from the Province of Pomerania)
    Lutheran missionary to China. He was a magistrate in Ningbo and Zhoushan and the second Chinese Secretary of the British administration in Hong Kong. He wrote...
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    Japan during World War II (category 20th-century military history of Japan)
    massive amounts of ceramic bombs filled with bubonic plague-infested fleas in Ningbo, China. These attacks would eventually lead to thousands of deaths years...
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    Shirō Ishii (category Imperial Japanese Army generals of World War II)
    to 1945, including the bubonic plague attacks at Chinese cities of Changde and Ningbo, and planned the Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night biological attack...
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    five cities as treaty ports open to Western traders: Shanghai, Canton, Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Xiamen (Amoy). The treaty also stipulated that China would...
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    Léonce Verny (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    in the arsenals of Brest and Toulon. Verny was sent to Ningbo and Shanghai in China from 1862 to 1864, to supervise the construction of four gunboats for...
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    in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes over Chinese cities, including coastal Ningbo and Changde, Hunan Province...
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  • Chen Din Hwa (category Businesspeople from Ningbo)
    "King of Cotton Yarn" in Hong Kong. Chen was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, Republic of China in 1923. His family was poor and he left school at the age of 12...
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    Chiang Fang-liang (category First ladies of the Republic of China)
    assigned a tutor to learn Mandarin Chinese, but she learned the local Ningbo dialect of Wu Chinese instead. She reportedly got along well with Mao Fumei and...
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    ISBN 978-1-4724-6498-9. Snow, Philip (2003). The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10373-1...
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    Alytus (redirect from History of Alytus)
    Poland Hiratsuka, Japan Kremenchuk, Ukraine Mandal, Norway Næstved, Denmark Ningbo, China Opole, Poland Ostrołęka, Poland Rochester, United States Rouen, France...
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