The Limehouse area in London was notorious for its opium dens, many of which catered for Chinese sailors as well as English addicts.

" They held a private memorial service in St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on the evening of 6 December 1989, with a chorus of the Chinese version of the hymn " Jerusalem " ("… Bling me my speal, oh crowds unford, bling me my chaliot of file …").

The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese ( 香港華人西醫書院 ) was founded in 1887 by the London Missionary Society, with its first graduate ( in 1892 ) being Sun Yat-sen ( 孫中山 ).

In 1945 he was brought back to London to teach Chinese.

He took a BA Honours degree in Modern Chinese Language and Literature ( Mandarin ) through the University of London.

Chinese emigrants to cities such as San Francisco, London, and New York brought with them the Chinese manner of opium smoking and the social traditions of the opium den.

It is now kept at Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London.

* March 26 – 80, 000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South Africa by the British government.

Consequently, from the 1890s onwards, significant Chinese communities grew up in London and Liverpool – the main ports for the China trade.

Rains began his career in the London theatre, having a success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and travelled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatisations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, as a Chinese farmer.

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" The Game of Leaves: An Inquiry into the Origin of Chinese Playing Cards ," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.

A Chinese ' Academic Ranking of World Universities ' also places Cambridge ( 4th place ) and Oxford ( 10th place ) in the World top ten in 2008, with University College London ( 22nd ) and Imperial College London ( 27th ) following in the top 30.

Bodley ’ s collecting interests were varied ; according to the library's historian Ian Philip, as early as June 1603 he was attempting to source manuscripts from Turkey, and it was during “ the same year that the first Chinese book was acquired .” In 1610, Bodley made an agreement with the Stationers ' Company in London to put a copy of every book registered with them in the library.

Sun attended To Tsai Church ( 道濟會堂, founded by the London Missionary Society in 1888 ) while he studied Western Medicine in Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese ( 香港華人西醫書院 ).

In 1896 he was detained at the Chinese Legation in London, where the Chinese Imperial secret service planned to kill him.

Barnet has the largest Chinese population of any London borough at 6, 379.

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Two railways established termini at Cookstown-the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in their dressed stone station designed by Charles Lanyon ( now much altered as a Chinese restaurant on Molesworth Street ) and the Great Northern Railway in their brick station next door ( now Cookstown High School's Hockey Club ).

* Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils: to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, & c ( London ) 1757

* LUST, JOHN: The Su-pao Case: An Episode in the Early Chinese Nationalist Movement, in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.

As a result, Chinese migration agents had been reported to " boycott " London Metropolitan University in advising clients who wish to study in the UK.

As well as being a regular panellist on Radio 4's Loose Ends ( 1987 – 88 ), and guest appearances on shows such as Radio 4's Kaleidoscope, in the early 1990s, Charles could be heard on the London Radio Station Kiss 100 ( Kiss FM ) as the Breakfast show presenter.

Within the record, joke commercials recorded by the band and actual jingles from recently outlawed pirate radio station Radio London were interspersed between the songs, ranging from pop songs to hard rock and psychedelic rock, culminating with a mini-opera titled " Rael.

In addition to Egyptian programming, the Middle East Broadcast Company, a Saudi television station transmitting from London ( MBC ), Arab Radio and Television ( ART ), Al-Jazeera television, and other Gulf stations as well as Western networks such as CNN and BBC, provide access to more international programs to Egyptians who own satellite receivers.

In 2006 he started a new club at the Big Chill House in Kings Cross, London, and did a guest mix for BBC Radio 1's The Blue Room show.

In the UK before 1967 media outlets for psychedelic culture were limited to stations like Radio Luxembourg and pirate radio like Radio London, particularly the programmes hosted by DJ John Peel.

Many BBC Local Radio stations and some commercial stations offer a talk format, for example, BBC London, the BBC's flagship local station.

Seymour Stein, the president of Sire Records – in London on business – heard John Peel play Teenage Kicks on BBC Radio 1 and became interested in the band.

* December 23 – Wonderful Radio London commences transmissions with American top 40 format broadcasting, from a ship anchored off the south coast of England.

** WWII: Appeal of 18 June: General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces, makes his first broadcast appeal over Radio Londres from London rallying French Resistance, calling on all French people to continue the fight against Nazi Germany: " France has lost a battle.

* August 14 – Wonderful Radio London shuts down at 3: 00 PM in anticipation of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act.

Many fans greet the staff upon their return to London that evening with placards reading " Freedom died with Radio London.

** The BBC Radio Service from London, somewhat infamously, reports on this day that " There is no news ".

Williams rarely revealed details of his private life, though he spoke openly to Owen Spencer-Thomas about his loneliness, despondency and sense of underachievement in two half-hour documentary programmes entitled Carry On Kenneth on BBC Radio London.

Baron Cohen has stated that BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood was an influence on the development of his character – Westwood hosts Radio 1's Rap Show and speaks in a faux Multicultural London English and Hip-Hop dialect.

A total of forty-five Q codes appeared in the " List of Abbreviations to be used in Radio Communications ", which was included in the Service Regulations affixed to the Third International Radiotelegraph Convention in London ( The Convention was signed on July 5, 1912, and became effective July 1, 1913.

A journalist and broadcaster, Caine writes for national newspapers, and broadcasts regularly as London correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Canada.

Radio 4 is the second most popular British domestic radio station by total hours, after Radio 2 – and the most popular in London and the South of England.

Another group that was also based in North Texas who were aware of the Bill Mack venture on XERF and the replacement of his time slot by the Texas Night Train were the owners of a company attempting to revive the British offshore station Wonderful Radio London.

Beginning on August 13, 1984 the Wonderful Radio London Top 40 Show was heard nightly via taped programs which were recorded in England and flown to Texas.