Paoting

Ting Hsien is one of the outstandingly rich districts of Hopei; Paoting may be better considered as representative of the agrarian condition on the plain of this province. A rural survey of Paoting was carried out by the National Research Institute of Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, in co-operation with the Peiping Institute of Social Research.

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In 1900 Feng had his first fleeting contact with foreigners. When Boxers became active in the Paoting area, the troops stationed there were ordered to suppress them. The officers, however, admired the Boxers’ anti-foreign activity, and ignored their orders. Boxer drills were openly conducted in the vicinity of Paoting until April, when an order came through commanding the military to train the Boxers.

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PAOTING (CH’ING-YÜAN, TSINGYUAN), capital of Hopeh province, China, is 90 mi. (145 km.) S.W. of Peking on the Peking-Hankow railway.

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In North China, NLVC headquarters moved from Peiping to Paoting, one of the three reconcentration points for NLVC members. There, they rallied to the support of Sun Ku-ying, Shih Yu-san, and other 29th Army commanders. However, the Japanese blitzkrieg made effective resistance impossible. On September 24, Paoting fell.

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