Captain Plant Chongqing Legacy
Category: Chungking
Marshall Feng Yü-hsiang and the missionary
China is a large country to be sure, but after 50 years of missionary service at the center of the Yangtze River in Yichang, Mary Emelia Moore – one of the most universally respected women – had encountered plenty of people, including some of the most influential. Warlord armies fought fierce battles there. The Japanese […]
S.S. Pioneer
On the morning of June 20, 1900 in Peking, German diplomat Klemens Freiherr von Ketteler was shot at point blank range by a Manchu soldier avenging Ketteler’s murder of a Chinese boy. Empress Dowager declared war on all foreign powers the next day. Meanwhile, 800 miles away in Ichang, Captain Cornell Plant set out to […]