• Yamen (simplified Chinese: 崖门镇; traditional Chinese: 崖門鎮; pinyin: Yáimén Zhèn) is a town in the south of Xinhui District of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China...
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    Song. Today, the battle site is located in the town of Yamen, in Xinhui County, Jiangmen, Guangdong. In 1276, the Southern Song court, in their rush to flee...
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    000 Song dynasty ships were destroyed by the Yuan dynasty fleet near Yamen, Guangdong, China. This is greater than the low-end estimate of ships involved...
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    against Song forces at Mount Ya (present-day Yamen), forcing Zhao Bing to flee. During the ensuing Battle of Yamen on March 19, 1279, the entire Song army...
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    of Yamen 1279 in Guangdong marked the end of the Southern Song dynasty (960–1279). During the Mongol Yuan dynasty, large parts of current Guangdong belonged...
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    Bing. In 1279, after the Battle of Yamen, Lu Xiufu brought Zhao Bing with him to Yashan (present-day Yamen, Guangdong Province), where they committed suicide...
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    commander Zhang Rou) off the coast of Xinhui and destroyed at the Battle of Yamen on 19 March 1279. Prime Minister Lu Xiufu committed suicide, drowning the...
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    renamed "Xianglong County" (祥龍縣). They moved to Yamen (in present-day Xinhui District, Jiangmen, Guangdong Province) to evade the Mongols. The Mongols sent...
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    this deployment to the Zongli Yamen, the Guangdong authorities mentioned that the only reasonably large ships in the Guangdong Fleet at that period were Haijing...
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  • Wufeng District, Taichung, Taiwan Kengkou Village (坑口村), Yamen, Xinhui District, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China Look up 坑口 or kēngkǒu in Wiktionary, the free...
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    Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang, is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong, China. It grew from a separate city founded at the confluence of the...
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    1801. She was named Zheng Yi Sao ("wife of Zheng Yi") by the people of Guangdong. After the death of her husband in 1807, she took control of his pirate...
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    Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province. At the end of the Southern Song dynasty, following the defeat of the Song army at the Battle of Yamen, Zhao Shizong...
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    the Qing government. Lu was taken to the yamen in Nanhai County (present-day Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong) for interrogation by the county magistrate...
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    Later, Song resistance forces was completely destroyed at the Battle of Yamen (1279), Zhang again provide the same offer, reasoning that Wen was no longer...
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    Kingdom in 1253 and eliminated the Southern Song following the Battle of Yamen in 1279. Rather than ruling Lingnan as a subject territory or military district...
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    Pearl River Delta (category Landforms of Guangdong)
    where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. Referred to as the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area in official documents, the region is...
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  • gentry to pay their taxes and grain due, to quell the rebellious feelings of yamen runners in the county; he also came up with methods to deal with treacherous...
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    This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level...
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    between British and Chinese forces at the city of Canton (Guangzhou), Guangdong province, China on 23 October to 5 November 1856 during the Second Opium...
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    Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong, the three ethnic Han lords of Yunnan, Guangdong and Fujian provinces whose hereditary titles were given to them for defecting...
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    improvisational dish. According to local people from the Guangdong province, prior to the Battle of Yamen, the last emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Bing, and...
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    it has always been the official cuisine of Sichuan Governor and General Yamen. The overall taste of Shanghe Bang cuisine is mild. Hot pot is mainly oil-clearing...
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    the Song dynasty. 1279 19 March Battle of Yamen: A Yuan fleet destroyed a vastly superior Song force near Yamen. The Song chancellor Lu Xiufu drowned himself...
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    acquisitions from Britain and Germany. The admiralty or naval board (haijun yamen) was established in 1885. The Nanyang Fleet fought in the Sino-French War...
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    Chen Lanbin (category Ministers of Zongli Yamen)
    Ambassador to the United States during the Qing dynasty. Born in Wuchuan City, Guangdong, he passed the Chinese imperial examination in 1853 at the age of 24,...
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  • in China of Robert Hart, Esq., as Confidential Adviser of the Tsung-li Yamen; the Hart-Alcock Convention; the Dispersion of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla;...
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    prosperous Lower Yangzi valley, the total staff of clerks, secretaries, yamen runners, medical examiners, jailers, and other such lesser employees might...
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    Dynasty. The newlywed couples would collect their certificate from the county Yamen, the certificate includes the names and ages of the couple, as well as names...
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    As rebuilt in 1857, the New Custom House was in the traditional Chinese Yamen style. It was fronted with a monumental arch or pailou (牌樓) and two flag...
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