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Sir Percy Cradock
was manhandled by the
Red Guards
when he was stationed at the
charge d'affaires
office,
Peking
, during the
Cultural Revolution
?
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Beijing
Beijing
Communist Party chief
Li Ximing
was a leading supporter of military action against the
Tiananmen Square protests
that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people?
French
Sinologist
Paul Pelliot
was caught up in the
Boxer Rebellion
and trapped in the siege of
Peking
?
British
cyclist
Simon Richardson
won two gold medals and one silver at the
2008 Summer Paralympics
in
Beijing
?
Ireland
's former
Taoiseach
Bertie Ahern
presented an episode of
GAA
television programme
The Road to Croker
when the usual host was at the
2008 Summer Olympics
in
Beijing
?
a Cossack community
existed in
Beijing
as early as
1685
?
Bailin Temple
in
Beijing
was not pillaged by
Anglo-French forces
in 1860 or by the
Eight-Nation Alliance
in 1900 because of the superstitious fear that
Tibetan Buddhism
inspired in the invaders?
Beijing opera
did not originate in
Beijing
but in the
Chinese
provinces of
Anhui
and
Hubei
?
James Bennet
was set to become
Beijing
correspondent for
The New York Times
when he instead was appointed the fourteenth editor-in-chief of
The Atlantic Monthly
in March 2006?
Meng Xuenong
was sacked as mayor of
Beijing
during the
SARS
crisis
, but has now made a comeback as governor of
Shanxi
province?
Tim Morehouse
, a member of the
U.S. fencing team
at the
2008 Summer Olympics
in
Beijing
, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?
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