Word: hong
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hong Yen Chang, the first Chinese lawyer, was admitted to the bar at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., last Thursday. He came to this country in 1872, and studied at Yale and the Columbia law schools...
...London paper gives the following curious statement concerning the method of examination employed in the "Flowery Kingdom": It is a curious fact that of all Chinese cities, Canton, though it is within eight hours of Hong Kong, and has, of all the places in the empire, the longest known Europeans, has undergone less change than any other great centre of population in China. It remains precisely as it was hundreds of years ago, and when once the wall is passed the traveler might for all he can see, be at least a thousand miles from any Western influence. And there...
...news of the loss of the steamer Ashuelot is officially confirmed by a despatch from the commander of the United States steamer Richmond, dated Hong Kong, February 21, to Secretary Chandler...
...tickets are to be given to Chinese emigrants from Hong Kong upon the passage of the anti-Chinese bill...
Professor S. Wells Williams of Yale College says the story of the beheading of Chin Chin Chan, formerly a student there, must be apocryphal. He cannot trace the letter said to have been received, and is certain no beheading could have been done at Hong Kong, as reported, for that is an English province...