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Clemens von Ketteler, German diplomat murdered in China

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date June 20, 2020
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Clemens von Ketteler (1853-1900), German diplomat and Ambassador to China

Clemens von Ketteler, Minister of the German Empire in China, was killed in Peking on June 20th, 1900 by a local soldier.

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Using junks to conquer an island: the strange case of Hainan in 1950

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date May 1, 2020
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Hainan is marked in red. The leaf-shaped island to the east is Taiwan.

The conquest of the Chinese island of Hainan by Mao’s communists in the spring of 1950 saw the successful use of junks against war ships.

Tags China, Chinese Civil War, Communists, Deng Hua, Feng Baiju, Haikou, Hainan, Hawaii of the East, Kanton, Mao Tse-tung, Taiwan, Xue Yue