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They have inflamed the feelings of Chinese victims by seeking to deny their responsibility for outrages such as the Rape of Nanking.
Finally, in 1842, the Chinese were forced to agree to an ignomious peace under the Treaty of Nanking.
Bale appeared in Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War, set during the Nanking massacre.
After the war, he worked for the U. S. Air Force in Nanking, China, for several years, and later emigrated to the United States.
Beyond that, one theory from Canton states that the inventor was Hung Hsiu-Ch'uan, the Cantonese who led a rebellion and proclaimed himself Emperor of Nanking.
David McNeil in the Independent describes the Nanking massacre thusly.
It has a long trading and industrial history and was the port of entry during the Empire, from 1842,when the Treaty of Nanking was signed.
Despite the fact that Hirota was not in charge of the army units that invaded Nanking, he was well informed about the extent of the massacre.
Built during Shanghai's early 1900's construction boom, the former Nanking Theatre was Shanghai's first venue for foreign film and was one of the few buildings of its era designed by a Chinese architect.
But Nanking where the Chinese government had moved, put up a fierce fight.
It's already affecting Asia from Kabul to Colombo, from Nanking to Beijing, it's affecting Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, and it's affecting a number of different populations within North America.
Nanking by Shanghai, Quebec City by Montreal, and numerous US state capitals.
The Imperial Japanese Army swiftly captured the capital Nanjing and conducted the Nanking Massacre.
Hong Kong was officially recorded in the 1842 Treaty of Nanking to encompass the entirety of the island.
The rawest and most recent of these was the invasion of China by Japan in the 1930s and the massacres that ensued, especially that of the city of Nanking.
In 1999, there were hacking exchanges between China and Japan over the issue of the Nanking massacre, between China and Taiwan, and between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
The most important step was Cordell Hull's emphatic protest by the issue simultaneously through the American Embassy in Tokio and the Japanese Embassy in Washington against the Japanese threatened serial attack upon Nanking.
Consequently only samples of this kind of report have been in¬cluded, such as the three fascinating documents revealing the trials and tribu¬lations of one Canadian diplomat in Nanking.
Small stocks of chokecherries, Nanking cherries, wild blackberries, saskatoons and elderberries are being evaluated for their potential in expanding the Province's small fruit industry.
The Politburo had already met on 1 April to agree that the Nanking incident had been splittist and supportive of Teng Hsiao-p'ing.
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Examples from Classical Literature
That Nanking was their capital and that here a descendant of the Mings had even reigned.
Many of these lived miserably as tenants on the farms of the gentry between Nanking and Hangchow.
At Changsha matters were not nearly so far advanced as they were at Nanking.
With this support Li gained numerous victories leading to the surrender of suchow and the capture of Nanking.
The establishment of the Taiping power at Nanking attracted the attention of Europeans.
He was about ready to go to America to school when he had completed his work at Nanking.
A little north of Nanking are located two of the Ming tombs.
Of those on the Yangtze, one should be at Nanking and the other at hankow.
The Sung fixed their capital at Nanking and afterwards at Hangchow.
Yet the capture of Nanking was put off until the last act of all.
The crux of the question, no doubt, was the position 391 of Nanking.
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