Nanking
Americannoun
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On his tour, Mr Neogi shows participants the building which housed the first posh restaurant - Nanking - in the 1920s.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023
“As the summer wore on, however, and the Communists began to tighten their controls, he began discreetly to voice sour observations. When I left Nanking, … he was distrustful of the Communists,” Topping recounted.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2019
The treaty of Nanking in 1842 ceded Hong Kong to the British.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2017
Peking is still the storm centre—the local Youth League leaders were all replaced this week—but the dragnet is widening to Shanghai, to Nanking and as far out as Kweichow and Yunnan.
From Economist • May 13, 2016
About a month after they had put to sea, they were wrecked in a furious gale in the Gulf of Nanking, and fourteen of the Portuguese alone escaped with their lives.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de
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