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
She wrote the screenplay for “Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl,” set during the Cultural Revolution, and the source novella for “The Flowers of War,” a 2011 film starring Christian Bale about the Rape of Nanking.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2021
“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
They lost city after city, and, finally in July 1864, the imperialists, after an interval of twelve years, once more gained possession of Nanking.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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