Ningpo

After failing the civil service examinations, Chiang attended the Phoenix Mountain School near his home, then transferred to a school in Ningpo to study under a professor who gave him special assignments and pushed him toward an exacting Confucianism that preached self-discipline and self-denial.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

The Treaty of Nanking, which ended the First Opium War in 1842, ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain, required the Chinese to pay $21 million indemnity, and opened the so-called treaty ports of Shanghai, Canton, Amoy, Foochow, and Ningpo to foreign trade.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

Japanese airplanes also dropped a cloud of grain on the city of Ningpo.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

Shanghai, Singapore, Rotterdam and Ningpo are the leaders.

Think Progress » Top FEMA Deputies Make Brown Look Qualified 2005

Retaken by English forces, her name was changed by “Chinese” Gordon? to Ningpo …

The Ningpo: A Chinese Ocean-going Junk « Far Outliers 2004

One of the few surviving ships of the so-called Junk Trade is the Ningpo, one of a handful ...

2004 January 07 « Far Outliers 2004

After having been damaged in a couple typhoons, abandoned by a mutinous crew, and rowed 320 miles back to port after yet another storm, the Ningpo finally sailed across the Pacific to San Pedro, California in a fast 58 days.

The Ningpo: A Chinese Ocean-going Junk « Far Outliers 2004

One of the few surviving ships of the so-called Junk Trade is the Ningpo, “one of a handful of large old junks that crossed the Pacific and ended up on the West Coast of the United States.”

The Ningpo: A Chinese Ocean-going Junk « Far Outliers 2004

By 1917, the Ningpo was towed to Catalina Island, where she eventually began to sink literally into oblivion but not before appearing in the background of several Hollywood adventure films.

The Ningpo: A Chinese Ocean-going Junk « Far Outliers 2004

In fact, it was during one of these Hollywood productions that a prop replica of a fire ship drifted out of control when the winds shifted and ran into the slumbering hulk of the Ningpo, burning the topsides to the waterline.

The Ningpo: A Chinese Ocean-going Junk « Far Outliers 2004