Treaty of Tientsin

The Treaty of Tientsin, also known as the Treaty of Tianjin, is a collective name for several documents signed at Tianjin in June 1858. The Qing dynasty, Russian Empire, Second French Empire, United Kingdom, and the United States were the parties involved. These treaties, counted by the Chinese among the so-called unequal treaties, opened more Chinese ports to foreign trade, permitted foreign legations in the Chinese capital Beijing, allowed Christian missionary activity, and effectively legalized the import of opium. They ended the first phase of the Second Opium War, which had begun in 1856 and were ratified by the Emperor of China in the Convention of Peking in 1860, after the end of the war.

Cai Gao

Cai Gao (1788–1818), also known as Tsae A-ko and by various other names, was the first Protestant convert in mainland China. He has also been called the first Western-style type-cutter and letterpress printer

Wat Ngong

Wat Ngong (1785–1867), also known by various other names, was a Chinese Protestant convert, evangelist, and writer from Guangzhou during the Qing dynasty. He was an early lithographer in Malacca, Macao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong, possibly the first

Benjamin Hobson

Benjamin Hobson (1816–1873) (Chinese：合信) was a Protestant medical missionary who served with the London Missionary Society in imperial China during its Qing dynasty. His Treatise on Physiology, reproducing and elaborating on work by William

Greenland Provincial Council

The Greenland Provincial Council was the provincial government of Greenland between 1950, when it was formed from the union of the earlier North and South Greenland Provincial Councils, and 1 May 1979, when it was replaced by the Greenland Home Rule

Tow (surname)

Tow is a surname in various cultures

Carsey

Carsey is a surname. It originated as an American variant spelling of the English surname Kersey, a habitational surname from Kersey, Suffolk. The 2010 United States Census found 692 people with the surname Carsey, making it the 33,087th-most-common name

Tou (surname)

Tou is a surname in various cultures

Hodh

Hodh or El Hodh is a region of West Africa. Previously administered as part of French Sudan, the area was transferred to French Mauritania in 1944, apparently on a whim of the colonial governor Laigret. The transfer was still resented upon Mali's

Flavianus

Flavianus—the adjectival form of the name Flavius in Latin—may refer to:M. Pompeius Silvanus Staberius Flavianus, a 1st-century Roman consul L. Septimius Flavianus Flavillianus, a 3rd-century Roman athlete Faustus Flavianus, fully Marcus Cocceius

Way of the Li Family

Lijia Dao was one of the oldest schools of religious Daoism and was popular throughout South China during the Six Dynasties (220-589). Since several Way of the Li Family practices resembled those of the Way of the Celestial Masters, such as healing with