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Chen Zhenhe
Chen Zhenhe (15 March 1906 – 28 January 1941) was a Chinese association football, footballer. He competed in the Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics, men's tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Early life Born in Jakarta, Batavia, Java in the then Netherlands East Indies, he was brought to China by his father to be brought up in their ancestral city of Xiamen. He entered the Shanghai Jinan National University in 1926, intending to study business administration. Football career He played in his university football team, winning eight championships in nine years. He next played for the Shanghai club You-You. Prior to his selection for the Olympic team he had played in the winning China national football team in the Far Eastern Games in 1930 and 1934 and was playing in the Shanghai You-You F.C. Military career and death In 1932 he entered the Chinese Central Aviation School and became commissioned in the Republic of China Air Force, Chinese Air Force. He served from 1937 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much-larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java. The founding of Batavia by the Dutch in 1619, on the site of the ruins of Jayakarta, led to the establishment of a Dutch colony; Batavia became the center of the Dutch East India Company's trading network in Asia. Monopolies on local produce were augmented by non-indigenous cash crops. To safeguard their commercial interests, the company and the colonial administration absorbed surrounding territory. Batavia is on the north coast of Java, in a sheltered bay, on a land of marshland and hills crisscrossed with canals. The city had two centers: Oud Batavia (the oldest part of the city) and the relatively-newer city, on higher ground to the south. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
