At this time Sun remained largely sidelined ; and, without arms or money, was soon expelled from Guangzhou and exiled again to Shanghai.

He was restored to Guangzhou with mercenary help in 1920.

Chiang Kai-shek returned to Guangzhou, and in 1924 was appointed Commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy by Sun.

Chiang had Hu put under house arrest, but he was released after national condemnation, after which he left Nanjing and supported a rival government in Guangzhou.

This disrupted Chiang's offensives against the Communists for a time, although it was the northern factions of Hu Hanmin's Guangzhou ( Canton ) government ( notably the 19th Route Army ) that primarily led the offensive against the Japanese during this skirmish.

Yan broke down in tears while talking of the loss of his home province of Shanxi to the Communists, and warned Li that the Nationalist cause was doomed unless Li went to Guangzhou.

Central Plaza was also the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world, until it was surpassed by CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou.

Known as the Hackett Medical College for Women ( 夏葛女子醫學院 ), this College was located in Guangzhou, China, and was enabled by a large donation from Mr. Edward A. K.

Women's Kabaddi was first introduced in 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

Lin Juemin, one of the 72 martyrs of the Second Guangzhou Uprising was a cousin of her grandfather.

During his stay at home, Mao's interest in the revolution was rekindled after hearing of the 1925 uprisings in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

" British colonial administrators advocated the spread of the system to the rest of the Commonwealth, the most " persistent " of which was Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China.

The second was 26-year-old Charles Magniac who had arrived in Guangzhou at the beginning of 1801 to supervise his fathers watch business in Canton in partnership with Daniel Beale.

He was nicknamed by the locals " The Iron-headed Old Rat " after being hit on the head by a club in Guangzhou.

It was also suggested by Jardine that should the need arise to occupy an island or harbor in the vicinity of Guangzhou.

* 993: the Arab maritime captain Abu Himyarite from Yemen toured Guangzhou port, and was an avid visitor to China

* Organized western merchants make their first contact with China after Rafael Perestrello was the first to land in southern China in 1513 ; European merchants venture into port at Guangzhou and trade with Chinese merchants there.

Although the Tang and Song dynasty international seaports — the greatest being Guangzhou and Quanzhou, respectively — and maritime foreign trade brought merchants great fortune, it was the Grand Canal within China that spurred the greatest amount of economic activity and commercial profit.

The island of Whampoa, ten miles downriver from Guangzhou, was at the heart of the Soviet-Nationalist Party alliance.

The first was in January 1925 when Chen Jiongming, an important Cantonese military leader previously driven out of Guangzhou by Sun Yat-sen, attempted to retake Guangzhou.

The CPC and the left wing of the KMT had decided to move the seat of the KMT government from Guangzhou to Wuhan, where communist influence was strong.

The Guangzhou commune was able to control Guangzhou for three days and a " soviet " was established.

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816-1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ) in Guangzhou, China.

* Benjamin Hobson, medical missionary to China, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ( in Guangzhou, China.

Between 1912 and 1927 three governments had been set up in South China: the Provisional government in Nanjing ( 1912 ), the Military government in Guangzhou ( 1921 – 1925 ), and the National government in Guangzhou and later Wuhan ( 1925 – 1927 ).

In the second meeting, officials from three sides decided to set up an office specifically in Guangzhou to do the work of the group and appointed a design institute in the Mainland to conduct the feasibility study and produce a report on landing points for the bridge.

The Bank set up its Guangzhou Representative Office, its first presence in China.

He then declared himself the King of Nanyue (" Southern Yue ") and set up his capital at Panyu (), the site of modern-day Guangzhou.

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816 – 1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ) in Guangzhou, China.

In the 1780s, thousands of voluntary migrants set sail for Port Louis from Guangzhou on board British, French, and Danish ships ; they found employment as blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers, and tailors, and quickly formed a small Chinatown, the camp des Chinois, in Port Louis.

The anti-Chiang factions in the KMT converged on Guangzhou to set up a rival government.

That month, she reached two further WTA quarter-finals, at Beijing and ( for the second year running ) Guangzhou, where she retired in her quarter-final match against teenaged emerging star Victoria Azarenka after losing the first set by a break.

In September, Pe ' er ended a three year drought without a tournament win at the Guangzhou International Women's Open in China without dropping a set.

As the republicans were based in Canton ( a Cantonese speaking area, now commonly known as Guangzhou ), Chiang became known by Westerners under the Cantonese romanization of his courtesy name, while the family name as known in English seems to be the Mandarin pronunciation of his Chinese family name, transliterated in Wade-Giles )

* 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.

The major ports, including river ports accessible by ocean-going ships, are Beihai, Dalian, Dandong, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hankou, Huangpu, Jiujiang, Lianyungang, Nanjing, Nantong, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Rizhao, Sanya, Shanghai, Shantou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Weihai, Wenzhou, Xiamen, Xingang, Yangzhou, Yantai, and Zhanjiang.

* 1178: Chinese writer Zhou Qufei, a Guangzhou customs officer, writes of an island far west in the Indian Ocean ( possibly Madagascar ), from where people with skin " as black as lacquer " and with frizzy hair were captured and purchased as slaves by Arab merchants.

* During the turmoil of the An Shi Rebellion, the Chinese seaport Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian raiders.

This is followed up by Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, who commands an expedition from Portuguese Malacca in 1516 to land on the shores of mainland southern China, in order to trade with Chinese merchants at Guangzhou.

Guangzhou Metro L5 vehicle made by CSR Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock and Kawasaki Heavy Industries

All applications are in rapid transit. Guangzhou Metro L4 vehicle made by CSR Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock & Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Compared to the traditional sea trade routes from Guangzhou and Shanghai, the rail link to Europe cuts travel time to Europe from about 36 days by container ship to just 13 days by freight train.

Attempts were made by CPC to take cities such as Nanchang, Changsha, Shantou, and Guangzhou.

Unsuccessful urban insurrections ( in Nanchang, Wuhan and Guangzhou ) and the suppression of the Communist Party in Shanghai and other cities drove many party supporters to rural strongholds such as the Jiangxi Soviet organized by Mao Zedong.

The Southern Han ( 917 – 971 ) was founded in Guangzhou ( also known as Canton ) by Liu Yan.

The bombing campaigns on Nanking and on Guangzhou evoked protests from the Western powers culminating in a resolution by the Far Eastern Advisory Committee of the League of Nations.

Zhang Zhi ' an, an associate journalism professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou said, " I think CCTV has too much power ", contrasting the Da Vinci case with extortion attempts by journalists at smaller media outlets.

In 1926, he traveled to Guangzhou in southern China to attend a training course run by Nguyen Ai Quoc ( later to be known as Ho Chi Minh ), before being admitted as a member of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, the predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ).