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The Tragic History of Lianying (蓮英慘史), World Book Company , 1920. Several works of "news fiction" (新闻小说) based on the case were published by the end of the year. On 1 July 1920, the World Book Company made a call for stories about Lianying and her murder.
1920s in Asian sport (20 C). 1920s in Southeast Asia (20 C) / 1920s disestablishments in Asia (33 C) 1920s establishments in Asia (52 C, 2 P) 0–9. 1920 in Asia (32 ...
In May 1905, a mass meeting was held in San Francisco, California to launch the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League. [1] Among those attending the first meeting were labor leaders and European immigrants, Patrick Henry McCarthy of the Building Trades Council of San Francisco, Andrew Furuseth, and Walter Macarthur of the International Seamen's Union.
The Many-Colored Land, first book of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile series Julian May: Time travellers from the late twenty-first to the early twenty-second century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's Pliocene. The world is controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. 1982 Life, the Universe and Everything: Douglas Adams
Ghosts hoping for leavings or ghosts that inhale energy (吸氣鬼; 希棄鬼; xīqìguǐ) eat any human leftovers, and can even devour the qi of living beings. Ghosts of great powers ( 大勢鬼 ; dàshì guǐ ) are powerful rulers of ghosts (like yakshas , rakshasas , pishachas , etc.), who are perpetually aggressive and violent.
Kim, Hyung-Chan, ed. Dictionary of Asian American History (1986) 629pp; online edition; Lee, Jonathan H. X. and Kathleen M. Nadeau, eds. Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife (3 vol. 2010) Lee, Jonathan H. X. History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots (2015) Ng, Franklin. The Asian American Encyclopedia (6 vol., 1995)
From book: Mexico, California and Arizona; being a new and revised edition of Old Mexico and her lost provinces. (1900) (image caption "A Balcony In The Chinese Quarter") Mexico had its highest percentage of foreign immigrants in 1930. One reason for this is that from the 1820s to the 1920s, Mexico was mired in political instability and civil war.
Because modern game players may not know much about the early part of the twentieth century, 1920s Investigators' Companion contains information covering the 1920s. [1] The book covers economic and social background, popular culture, research facilities, transportation, and equipment that would be available to 1920 investigators.