To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960Biografiske skildringer af 16 vestlige rådgivere i Kina |
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... Shanghai water- front for recruits . In those days , as many as three hundred ships could be found anchored in the harbor ; so it was not a difficult matter to induce layover sailors and navy deserters into joining a high - paying ...
... Shanghai water- front for recruits . In those days , as many as three hundred ships could be found anchored in the harbor ; so it was not a difficult matter to induce layover sailors and navy deserters into joining a high - paying ...
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... Shanghai to rebuild his army , he was met with hostility and scorn . The Shanghai North China Herald commented in August 1860 : " The first and best item . . . is the utter defeat of Ward and his men before Tsingpu . This notorious man ...
... Shanghai to rebuild his army , he was met with hostility and scorn . The Shanghai North China Herald commented in August 1860 : " The first and best item . . . is the utter defeat of Ward and his men before Tsingpu . This notorious man ...
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... Shanghai , feared that Bur- gevine , whose popularity among his predominantly American sub- ordinates in the Ever - Victorious Army ran high , was more a danger to the Ch'ing in the Shanghai area than to the Taiping rebels he was ...
... Shanghai , feared that Bur- gevine , whose popularity among his predominantly American sub- ordinates in the Ever - Victorious Army ran high , was more a danger to the Ch'ing in the Shanghai area than to the Taiping rebels he was ...
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Glorious Days of Looting | 57 |
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