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 Shandong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shandong was occupied in its entirety by Japan, with resistance in the countryside.
The highest peak of Shandong is the highest peak in the Taishan area: Jade Emperor Peak, with a height of 1545 m.
Penglai, a town on the north of the Shandong peninsula famed in Daoism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shandong   (1953 words)

  
 Basic Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Shandong Province is situated along the eastern coastal lines and in the lower reaches of Yellow River, comprising of peninsulas and inlands.
Shandong is recognized to be a most important grain and cotton producing regions and the largest peanut-producing base whose export capacity accounting for more than 50% of the state.
Shandong has always taken the leading role in the opening to the outside world in terms of the time span and the opening extent.
www.dzwww.com /english/shandong/t20030424_377641.htm   (839 words)

  
 Peninsulas All Over the World quiz -- free game
This peninsula was invaded by the Tatars in the 13th century.
This peninsula is situated on the east coast of New Guinea Island, Papua New Guinea.
This peninsula is situated in Gujarat, on the west coast of India.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=120535   (405 words)

  
 China Tours - China Travel - China Travel Tour - China Travel Guide - China Travel Service - China Custom Tours
The Shandong Peninsular constitutes the eastern part of Shandong, a province in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and a cradle of the Dawenkou and Longshan cultures about 4,000 years ago.
Shandong was also the homeland of Confucius and Mencius, two celebrated thinker of ancient China.
Shandong was the cradle of education in the east in ancient times.
www.chinacustomtours.com /city/shandong.html   (1395 words)

  
 Terrain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The mountains in Shandong, in centre-east of the region are divided into two main areas, the Central Shandong Massif and the Jiaodong Peninsula.
The Central Shandong Massif is a group of peaks over 1,000m high in the centre of the province, of which the tallest is Taishan, 1,524m, surrounded by lesser mountains of 5-800m.
In the centre and east of Shandong province are two areas of hills that are sharply distinguished from the plain that surrounds them to the north, west and south, the Central Shandong Massif and the Jiaodong Peninsula.
members.aol.com /anglochine/terrain.htm   (575 words)

  
 Shandong, China
The densely populated province of Shandong lies between 114°36'-122°43'E and 34°25'-38°23'N on the Bohai and the Huanghai seas.
In the east lies the peninsula of Shandong Bandao with its many bays, separating Huanghai Bay from the Yellow Sea.
At the end of the 19th C the area came under German influence and in the 20th C was at times occupied by the Japanese.
www.planetware.com /china/shandong-chn-sd-sd.htm   (358 words)

  
 Nottingham - Venue and Dates
Shandong Province is a significant coastal province in East China.
Shandong is one of the birthplaces of the ancient Chinese culture.
Shandong has always been known as the "hometown of Confucius and Mencius, as well as the land of ceremony and propriety".
www.fig.net /isdm12/venue.htm   (763 words)

  
 Map of China Province - Region, Regional
Shandong has a mean annual temperature of 12¡ã£­14¡ãC, increasing from the northeastern seaboard to the west and the south, and a mean annual precipitation of 500-900 mm or more, increasing from northwest to southeast.
Topography: Shandong with its peninsular and mainland parts may be divided into four topographical zones: 1) The Northwestern Shandong Plain, formed mainly by the deposits of the Yellow River, is part of the North China Plain.
2) The Jiaolai Plain between the central-south Shandong and the Jiaodong hilly regions is bounded by sea bays on its northern and southern tips and is traversed by the Jiaolai, Weihe and Dagu rivers.
www.cntravel.biz /china_columns/province/content_815399.shtml   (387 words)

  
 China Guide - the complete reference about China.
The Shandong Peninsula in the east protrudes between the Bohai Sea and the Huanghai Sea from the land mass and faces the Liaodong Peninsula in the north across the Bohai Straits, forming the maritime outpost of the nation's capital, Beijing.
Shandong is rich in historical and cultural resources, and gifted with beautiful landscapes, with 157 cultural relics preservation sites under the state protection.
Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, is known as the City of Springs with the famous Daming Lake and at least 72 famous springs.
www.china-club.de /english/provinces/shandong.html   (666 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional:Asia:China:Shandong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Shandong is one of the eastern coastal provinces of China, boardering to Hebei province to the northwest, Jiangsu province to the south and Henan province to the southwest.
Binzhou is a prefecture in Shandong province, China.
City in the south-east of the province, on the border with Jiangsu and near the coast.
dmoz.org /Regional/Asia/China/Shandong/desc.html   (236 words)

  
 Weihai Hotel / Golden Bay Hotel / Weihaiwei Hotel - @ - Lowest Rate Guaranteed
Weihai lies in the east end of Shandong peninsula, surrounded by sea on three sides.
It faces Korean peninsula and Japan across the sea to the east and borders on Yantai and Qingdao on the west.Weihai lies in the east end of Shandong peninsula, surrounded by sea on three sides.
It faces Korean peninsula and Japan across the sea to the east and borders on Yantai and Qingdao on the west.
www.chinatravelhub.com /hotels/32Weihai.htm   (350 words)

  
 Strategic games
FOR eight days in mid-August, China's Shandong peninsula was turned into a mock battleground with paratroopers swooping down on enemy positions from the air, marines backed by fighter jets charging from the sea, and warships tracking down hostile submarines off the coast in the Yellow Sea.
After the Shandong exercises, Sergei Ivanov said cooperation between the two militaries gave "a new dimension" to the inter-governmental international organisation with Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as it members.
The Shandong exercises carried a similar message: that Russia and China had reached a level of strategic relationship and were ready to guarantee jointly stability and security in the region.
www.flonnet.com /fl2219/stories/20050923001605000.htm   (1492 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Russian-Chinese Military Exercise Set   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Aug. 18-25 maneuvers, to be held on China's Shandong peninsula, highlight budding military ties between Moscow and Beijing, whose relations have warmed after decades of Cold War-era rivalry.
Under the scenario, the Shandong peninsula, which juts into the Yellow Sea about 275 miles southeast of Beijing, poses as an imaginary state "on the territory of which riots stemming from ethnic discord took place and confrontation between different forces occurred," Moltenskoi said.
Moltenskoi, who insisted that the Shandong peninsula had been chosen from the beginning, said that about 10,000 troops, 1,800 of them Russian, will take place in the exercise.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/aug/02/080203773.html   (623 words)

  
 Shandong News
People going to eastern Shandong Peninsula tend to skip Yantai and only tour the popular Qingdao.They may assume Yantai is a boring place with only apple and grape fields.
An elderly sleepwalker in Qingdao of Shandong Province has returned home safely with the help of police after he walked more than 30 kilometres away from his home, carrying a quilt, on Sunday night.
For more than two years, a young woman in Qingdao of Shandong Province has hidden herself at home for fear that people might see her nose, which was deformed by a dog bite.
www.topix.net /cn/shandong   (740 words)

  
 Qingdao -- U.S. Commercial Service China
This beautiful city is located in the south part of the Shandong Peninsula and covers a land area of 10,654 square kilometers.
Shandong province’s trade with the United States reached reached 7.3 billion in 2004, with imports accounting for 720 million.
Eastern Shandong is known for its gold deposits, which are the largest in China.
www.buyusa.gov /china/en/qingdao.html   (430 words)

  
 The Cradle of Civilization
During the second millennium BC, most of China's small tribal states scattered between the middle Yellow River basin and the Shandong Peninsula were highly aristocratic societies ruled by men who mixed brute force with religious legitimacy to buttress their principal claim to ruling authority.
Huang Di left the flat, flood-prone plains near Shandong Province for higher terrain of the Yellow River basin to the west, where he established his capital at Xinzheng, just south of Zhengzhou in Henan Province.
Legend states that the committee of tribal chiefs recommended Shun (You Dishun), leader of the Yu clan in Shandong Province, as Tang Yao's successor to head the united tribes.
www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C01/E0104.htm   (2215 words)

  
 Japan Foreign Policy 1875-1941   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Japan successfully invaded Korea, the Liaodong and Shandong peninsulas of China before China halted the war.
Korea was recognized as being under Japanese hegemony and the Russian possessions on Liaodong peninsula were ceded to Japan as well as a railway there and the southern half of Sakhalin peninsula and certain fishing rights off Russia.
The Japanese reinforced their armies in the Shandong and Liaodong peninsulas, they also loaned China a great deal of money and presented China with 21 Demands.
users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/JpnFrnPolicy.htm   (3028 words)

  
 DCP: 37 degrees north, 122 degrees east   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We started this hunt on the northern seashore of the Shandong peninsula, the port city of Yantai (烟台).
With an airplane to catch later in the day, we hired a taxi for the hunt based on a fair for 150 km of driving.
Shandong has one of the best expressway network in China, and a dense roadway system proportion to the high population density which made line hunting relatively easy.
www.confluence.org /confluence.php?id=6766   (496 words)

  
 Baekje Map - China History Forum, chinese history forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During that time (first century of the Age of Fragmentation), the Shandong peninsula was under the rule of the northern Chinese states of Former Zhao (until 349), Former Yan (until 370), and Former Qin (until 385).
You've mistaken the Liaodong peninsula in Liaoning province (where Dalian is) with the Shandong peninsula much further south.
Otherwise, the conventional wisdom is that there were no Koreans involved in the Shandong peninsula, which was often enough a battleground between opposing states in China.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=2065   (2700 words)

  
 Alumni: Joseph Haroff
Shandong University is located in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province in the east of the Shandong peninsula.
Situated just south of the Yellow River, and surrounded by mountains, it was surely a beautiful city before rapid industrialization took place.
The first semester I audited an upper-level Chinese course with other foreign students, and by the second semester, because of this class and the fact of being immersed in the Chinese language, I was able to audit some classes in both literature and philosophy.
www.valpo.edu /cjsp/alumni/haroff.html   (548 words)

  
 The Hindu : International : Second phase of military drill ends
Weather in east China's Shandong peninsula was a little too hot for 25-year-old Andrey Anfalov, a sergeant first class of Russian airborne troops, who was taking part in the exercises.
Each soldier of the Russian airborne troops attaches great importance to the drill,'' said Anfalov, whose troops were stationed in Weifang in Shandong peninsula.
The Russian troops, who arrived in Shandong peninsula on August 19, include officers and soldiers from paratroops, marine corps, air force and navy.
www.hindu.com /2005/08/23/stories/2005082304511400.htm   (514 words)

  
 Yantai Travel Guides,Yantai Hotels,Yantai Map,Yantai pictures-China City Tours Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Main Cities Of Shandong: Jinan, Yantai, Weifang, Penglai, Qingdao, Zibo, Zaozhuang, Jining, Dongying, Qufu, Tai'an.
Yantai located in the eastern part of Shandong Peninsula on the coast of Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea.
Yantai is a major seaport and fishing port of the Shandong Province.
www.achinatravel.com /china-travel/china-shandong-yantai.asp   (273 words)

  
 7-Day Shandong Peninsula Bike Tour | Shandong Peninsula Bike Tour
This tour will travel along the Shandong Peninsula from Qingdao to the eastern tip and visit both well-known and little-known sights.
On the sixth day we will cycle along the eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula through another small port city of Rongcheng ending the day in the small town of Chengshanwei.
On the seventh day, we will cycle to the eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula along a loop road in the morning and then return to Qingdao by motor vehicle.
www.infohub.com /vacation_packages/304.html   (573 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Beijing and Moscow are set to invade a peninsula in Shandong, but few think it signifies a major change in regional politics
The Bush administration has described a planned joint Chinese-Russian military exercise in the Yellow Sea north of Taiwan as one that could advance the "mutual goal of regional stability" in East Asia, despite some reports that paint the exercise as being eerily similar to a rehearsal for a joint invasion of Taiwan.
The simulated land, sea and air operation would "seize a beachhead on China's Shandong peninsula in advance of an inland offensive" according to a senior Russian military official quoted by the Post.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/2005/08/17/2003268023/print   (644 words)

  
 Industrial Estates in Weihai, Shandong, China
Weihai is in Shandong province of China and is located on the east end of Shandong Peninsula.
Being on the same latitude as San Francisco in the United States, Weihai is surrounded by sea on three sides, facing Liaoning Penisula to the north and the Korean Peninsula and the Japan Islands to the east.
As one of the most developed areas in north China, Weihai achieved a GDP of $8 billion and GDP per capita of $3,070 in 2001, which was the highest in Shandong Province and the same as that of Beijing.
www.business-in-asia.com /weihai.htm   (534 words)

  
 Exhumation tectonics of the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Qinling orogen in east China: New ...
Exhumation tectonics of the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Qinling orogen in east China: New petrological-structural-radiometric insights from the Shandong Peninsula
In the North Shandong area, mafic granulites enclosed as blocks within gneissic migmatites do not significantly differ from the Sulu and Weihai eclogites which also experienced a granulite facies overprint before migmatization.
The circa 210–200 Ma age of the main ductile deformation is related to an extensional event during the Triassic (or Indosinian) orogeny.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002TC001450.shtml   (452 words)

  
 Weihai, Shandong Peninsula, China - Southeast Asia
Weihai, Shandong Peninsula, China was a British naval base at the turn of the twentieth century.
There are nearby mountains and islands to visit, if you ever tire of the blue sea waters.
Not going to Weihai, Shangdong Peninsula, China soon, but want to have a sarong to wear.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art33944.asp   (132 words)

  
 China-a teaching position in dongying city Shandong province - ESL Lounge Forum
It is a primary school in Dongying city Shandong province.We offer 3000RMB every month and free accomodation.You have 16 classes per week.It is very urgently.So we hope you can come to our school as soon as possible.
Dongying City, founded in October, 1983, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the Shandong provincial government.
Dongying City covers an area of 8,053 square kilometres, including two districts and three counties, and has a total population of 1.7 million.
www.esl-lounge.com /forum/showthread.php?p=1652   (390 words)

  
 An emerging troika? | Hard News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is worth noting that similar groups (in addition to military transport aircraft, Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range bombers, and several wings of Chinese Su-30MKK and Russian Su-27SM Flankers) took part in the Russian-Chinese Peace Mission 2005 military exercise on the Shandong Peninsula and in the Yellow Sea two months prior.
This especially concerns the Russian-Chinese exercise in the Shandong Peninsula and the Yellow Sea.
Defence Minister Ivanov said that after the Shandong exercise, where Russian airborne units and airborne fighting vehicles were dropped from Il-76MF Candid military transport planes, Beijing decided to buy several such planes, a few Il-78 Midas mid-air refuellers, as well as systems for the airlift of combat vehicles.
www.hardnewsmedia.com /portal/2005/11/207   (1350 words)

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