Citations:Tsingtao

English citations of Tsingtao

1928, Harold M. Vinacke, A History of the Far East in Modern Times‎, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 224:

But the most serious situation developed out of Japanese participation in the World War. In the first place, the Japanese advance on Tsingtao put China as a neutral power in an anomalous position.
1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:
Wagner was a German agricultural economist who in 1911 went to Tsingtao to teach in a German-Chinese Middle School. He later worked at the Litsun Agricultural Experimental Station in Shantung where he continued his studies of agriculture both past and present.
1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China‎, Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:
Into Nelson Bell's earphones squawked a message from the consul at Tsingtao and then from the American minister himself, "insisting that we leave." The decisive factor, however, was a frank acceptance that to stay might increase the difficulties of Chinese Christians when the victorious revolutionary army poured into North Kiangsu.
1996, David Ritche, Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea‎, Facts On File, →ISBN, page 269:

1927, September 20. The Japanese steamship Gentoku Maru capsized in Tsingtao (Ch'ing-tao) Bay, China, killing 278.