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 CBBC - The China-Britain Business Review Archive - 50th Anniversary
Douglas Hurd spent two years in Beijing in the mid-1950s, at a time when the British Embassy was in the Legation quarter.
Lord Hurd served in the office of the British charge d'affaires, Beijing, 1954-56.
Anthony Eden arr-anged with Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954 that Humphrey Trevelyan should be accepted as the head of a proper diplomatic office, although not yet a full embassy.
www.cbbc.org /the_review/50th/fp5.html

  
 CBBC - The China-Britain Business Review Archive - 50th Anniversary
Douglas Hurd spent two years in Beijing in the mid-1950s, at a time when the British Embassy was in the Legation quarter.
Lord Hurd served in the office of the British charge d'affaires, Beijing, 1954-56.
I can understand the excitement of this transformation; but I am glad to have spent two years when the old China was still much more visible than the new.
www.cbbc.org /the_review/50th/fp5.html   (1311 words)

  
 1919, March. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Demonstrations exploded in Beijing; some 3,000 students gathered at Tiananmen Square and marched toward the foreign legation quarter.
Li and Chen became Communists, Lu Xun a nonparty leftist, and Hu a Deweyan liberal.
In a special issue on Marxism in the journal New Youth, Li Dazhao published his essay “My Marxist Views,” thus becoming the first Chinese to declare for Marxism.
www.bartelby.com /67/2464.html   (527 words)

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