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  • My home is in Shantung Province, and my name is Sun Bu-er.

    if i were . . . « Magic Lantern Arts 2003

  • In 1928 Japan despatched an armed force to Tsinan, in Shantung Province, to block the northward advance of the victorious Nationalist Army along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.

    The Fight for Democracy in China 1942

  • The original lair which the robbers held still exists in Shantung, or did until very recent times.

    Pearl Buck - Nobel Lecture 1938

  • After some years of wandering, while visiting a magistrate in Shantung, an incident occurred which had far-reaching consequences.

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

  • One of the settlements embodied in the Versailles Treaty upon which the enemies of the President in this country concentrated their fires of wrath and hatred against the President was the so-called Shantung settlement.

    Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Joseph P. Tumulty

  • One of the settlements embodied in the Versailles Treaty upon which the enemies of the President in this country concentrated their fires of wrath and hatred against the President was the so-called Shantung settlement.

    Woodrow Wilson as I know Him Tumulty, Joseph P 1921

  • "scholars", and both lived in the present Shantung, that is to say, in eastern China.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • The author did not live long enough to witness Japan's securing German interest in China's Shantung province in World War One, its penetration of northern China in the 1930s, nor its strike on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but he had a glimmer of an idea that Japan's course of conquest would lead to the awakening of the "sleeping dragon" of China.

    “. . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.” 2008

  • The best part was the listing of the fabric on the arm-label: 100% Genuine Imported Italian Shantung Rayon.

    Monday, Feb. 22 – The Bleat. 2010

  • Shantung province on the eastern coast to the [gap word illegible] interior provinces of Sz Chen and Shensi and be also intelligible.

    Letter from Young John Allen to Dr Lehon,1868? 2008

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