1936

A366
CHINKIANG—NANKING
DIRECTORY
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Goudasheff
Boat Officer—Sung Wan-ying
Examiners — Au Siu Tuen, Kuan
Ching Chih and Shen Yun Sun
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American Presbyterian Mission,
South
S. C. Farrior and wife
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Asiatic Petroleum Co. (North China),
Ltd.—Cable Ad: Doric
Bank of China—Cable Ad: 6892
British Consulate — fAdministered by
H.M. Consul-General in Nanking)
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Butterfield Swire (John Swire <fe
Sons, Ltd.), Merchants—Cable Ad: Swire
S. P. Chow
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Customs, Chinese Maritime
Commissioner—Chang Pai Leh
Assistant—Shih Chins
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Mas-
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Jardtne, Matheson & Co., Ltd , Merchants
and Steamship Agents^Cable Ad:
Inchoy
(For Agencies see Shanghai Section)
Post Office
Acting Deputy Postal Commissioner
—Pao Yung
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Standard Vacuum Oil Co. — Telephs.
135 (Office) and 116 (Installation); Cable
Ad: Standvac
Texas Co., The, Petroleum Products—
Cable Ad: Texaco
Chen Moo Shin
NANKING
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The city owes its present name, “Southern capital,” to having been many times
the capital of the Empire, the last occasion before the removal there of the Seat
of Government in 1927, being in the Ming dynasty at the commencement of
the 15th century. Nanking is also known as Kiang Ning Fu, being the chief city of
the prefecture of Kiang Ning, and the seat of government for the provinces grouped
under the designation of Kiang Nan. Besides Kiang Ning Fu, an elegant Chinese
name commonly used is Kin Ling Or “golden mound.” From the 5th or 6th century
B.C. to the present there has been a walled city at this place. Nanking was specified
in the French Treaty of 1858 as one of the Yangtze ports to be opened to trade, but
it was not formally opened until May, 1899. In July, 1915, Pukow, the southern
terminus of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway (lying across the river from Nanking), was
opened to foreign trade as a branch office of the Nanking Customs.
Nanking is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze, 45 miles beyond Chinkiang
and 193 by rail or 215 by water from Shanghai. From the river little can be seen of
it except the long line of lofty grey brick walls which encircles it. The walls have an