Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guangzhou

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guangzhou is an archdiocese located in the city of Guangzhou in China.

History

* 1848: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Guangdong-Guangxi from the Diocese of Macau
* 1875: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Guangdong
* April 6, 1914: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Guangzhou
* April 11, 1946: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guangzhou

Leadership

* Archbishops of Guangzhou
** Archbishop Dominic Deng Yi-ming , S.J.
** Bishop Dominic Deng Yi-ming , S.J.
** Archbishop Antoine-Pierre-Jean Fourquet, M.E.P.
* Vicars Apostolic of Guangzhou 廣州
** Bishop Antoine-Pierre-Jean Fourquet, M.E.P.
** Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Marie Budes de Guébriant, M.E.P.
** Bishop Adolphe Rayssac, M.E.P.
** Bishop Jean-Marie Mérel, M.E.P.
*Vicars Apostolic of Guangdong 廣東
** Bishop Jean-Marie Mérel, M.E.P.
** Bishop Augustin Chausse, M.E.P.
** Bishop Philippe Fran?ois Zéphirin Guillemin, M.E.P.

Suffragan Dioceses

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Rafael Perestrello

Rafael Perestrello was a explorer and a cousin of Filipa Moniz Perestrello, the wife of the famed explorer Christopher Columbus. He is best known for having been the first to land on the southern shores of mainland China in 1516 and 1517 to trade in Guangzhou,

Family background

Filippo Perestrello , son of Gabriele Palastrelli and wife ''Madama'' Bertolina, was a nobleman from the Italian city of Piacenza who moved with his wife Catarina Sforza to Portugal in 1385, living in Porto and then in Lisbon to conduct trade. Filippo and Catarina had four children: Richarte , Isabel , Branca and , the latter of whom would become the father-in-law to Christopher Columbus when Christopher married his daughter Filipa. bringing back profitable trade items and glowing reports about China's commercial potential. In fact, his report on China was one of the main reasons why Fern?o Pires de Andrade decided to carry out his mission in going to China instead of Bengal in 1517.

Rafael Perestrello's mission was followed up in 1517 by the Portuguese apothecary Tomé Pires and pharmacist, merchant, and diplomat Fern?o Pires de Andrade, in a diplomatic mission to Ming China commissioned by Manuel I of Portugal . Initial trade and diplomatic missions were temporarily ruined once wild rumors of Portuguese cannibalizing Chinese children was coupled with real events of Portuguese settlers breaking Chinese laws, pillaging Chinese villages, and taking off with female captives; the Chinese responded by burning and capturing Portuguese ships, detaining Portuguese prisoners, and executing some who were captured. The ex-sultan Mahmud Shah of Malacca had also sent diplomatic envoys to Ming Dynasty China to seek aid in expelling the Portuguese from Malacca; although this was never carried out, the sultan's mission did succeed in convincing the Ming court in rejecting the Portuguese embassy of Andrade and Pires after the death of the Zhengde Emperor in 1521.

Despite these initial hostilities, a Portuguese settlement was already reestablished at Macau by 1537 and granted consent by the Chinese government in 1557,

A captain in Sumatra

Rafael served as a captain under Jorge de Albuquerque, the younger cousin of Afonso, when the former was governor of Malacca and battled against the Kingdom of Pacem in Sumatra in 1514 in order to install a ruler there that was friendly to Portuguese interests. While Rafael Perestrello's crew was aiding Jorge de Albuquerque's siege on a fort and large stockade defended by these Sumatran "Moors", a of Rafael's troops named Marquez was—according to the historian Jo?o de Barros—the first man to scale the heights of the stockade during the fight. The battle against the well-defended fort and ruler of Pacem was a success; Albuquerque saw to the installment of the next ruler and favorable trade demands of low prices for Southeast Asian sold to the Portuguese. During Jorge de Albuquerque's second tour of duty, he defeated Mahmud Shah of Malacca at Bintan in 1524, forcing the latter to flee once again, this time to the Malay Peninsula.

Neusoft Institute of Information

Neusoft Institute of Information is a university with its campuses in Dalian, Guangzhou and Chengdu, China, specializing in the education of the IT fields.

Brief history

* In 2000, Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information opened in Dalian, Liaoning Province China by a joint venture of Neusoft Group and Dalian Software Park Co., Ltd. , as a private school attached to , Shenyang, specializing in the education of the IT fields.

* In 2001, Nanhai Neusoft Institute of Information opened at Nanhai Software Park in Foshan, Guangdong Province; and Chengdu Neusoft Institute of Information in Dujiangyan, near Chengdu, Sichuan Province..

* In July-August 2008, 3000 students from the Chengdu campus came to the Dalian campus, due to the damage to the building as the results of the Sichuan Earthquake.

Educational summary

* Students can major in information science, information management, embedded software, animation, or .

* At the Dalian campus, 4000 students are admitted each year.

** Each student must buy a laptop computer to do school work. There is an electronic library where a student can get electronic information service.

** There are foreign teachers, teaching English or Japanese, and foreign students who learn the Chinese language and culture.

Refference

* Kenichi Ohmae, "China Impact", in Japanese
* Mitsuhiro Seki, “The Academic-Industrial Complex in China", in Japanese

Museum of the Tomb of the King of Southern Yue in Western Han Dynasty

The Museum of the Tomb of the King of Southern Yue in Western Han Dynasty is a museum in Guangzhou, southern China.

The tomb of King Wen was discovered in 1983, 20 meters under Elephant Hill in Guangzhou on a construction site for a hotel, and has been excavated. The tomb measures 10.85 meter in length and 12.43 meters in width. It is divided in 7 parts, with a front chamber, east and west wing rooms, the main coffin chamber, east and west side rooms, and a back storage chamber. The tomb has yielded more than 1000 burial artifacts, and a chariot, gold and silver vessels, musical instruments, and human sacrifices were found . It is also the only tomb of the early Western Han Dynasty that has murals on its walls.

The tomb also yielded the oldest imperial seal discovered in a Chinese tomb: the seal, with the name "Zhaomo", declared the royal corpse to be “Emperor Wen", indicating that he considered himself equal in rank to the Han ruler.

Alongside Chinese artifacts, pieces from the steppes, and Iranian and Hellenistic Central Asian regions have been found: a Persian silver box found in the tomb is the earliest imported product found to date in China.

The Western Han Nanyue King Tomb Museum, located in Jiefang road, stands on the site of the tomb of King Wen.

Lingnan University (Guangzhou)

Lingnan University in Guangzhou, China, was a private university established by a group of missionaries in 1888. It was originally named Canton Christian College . In 1903, the Chinese name was changed to 嶺南學堂 in Macau. In 1916, the Chinese name was changed again, to 嶺南大學, as the college expanded to become a university. In 1927, management of the university passed into Chinese hands, and the English name was changed to Lingnan University, the translation of the school's Chinese name. Dr. Chung Wing Kwong became the first Chinese of the University. In 1930s, Lingnan became a globally recognized institution. A branch in Hainan with an emphasis on studies was founded in 1933.

The university relocated several times during its existence. It moved to Macau in 1900 to escape the repressive measures implemented by the Qing Dynasty, then back to Guangzhou in 1904. During the 1930s and 40s, the university was forced to move several times as Japanese armies advanced across China. In 1937, it relocated to Hong Kong as the Japanese occupied Canton, and in 1942, to Shaoguan in northern Guangdong, as the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. After World War II, the university was finally able to return to Guangzhou.

In 1953, Lingnan University was incorporated into Sun Yat-sen University. Members of the university who fled from communist rule to Hong Kong founded Lingnan College in Hong Kong to continue the spirit of the university in 1967. The college became in 1999.

Notable alumni

* Wing-tsit Chan, eminent Chinese philosopher and academic
* Wong Shik Ling, a in Cantonese language

Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra

The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra is a orchestra based in Guangzhou, Guangdong. It was founded in 1957.

The orchestra's current artistic director is Long Yu . It is the only Chinese symphony orchestra that has toured five continents.

, famous beatboxing flutist, was the acting principal flute of the orchestra at one time.

Guangzhou Railway Station

Guangzhou Railway Station serves the city of Guangzhou, China. It sits on the high speed Guangshen railway just west of . As one of the largest railway stations in southern China, Guangzhou station is known for its notorious safety record. trains from Guangzhou serves Shenzhen six times daily.

Services from this station include trains to Beijing and Lhasa. It is served by the Guangzhou Metro on Line 2.

History

As early as the 1950s, the provincial government saw the need for a central train station in Guangzhou but the plans were shelved until 1974 due to the Cultural Revolution.
On the 4th of April, 1979 with the normalisation of relations with Hong Kong, the service that was suspended for over twenty-five years was resumed. Through-train services were moved to in 1996 due to the increasing security problems the station was experiencing.