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The melon is the fruit and plant of a typically vine-like (climber and trailer) herb that was first cultivated more than 4000 years ago (~ 2000 BC) in Persia and Africa. This flowering plant bears an accessory fruit of a type that botanists call a false berry. Many different melon cultivars have been produced, perhaps the most popular or well-known being cantaloupe and honeydew. The watermelon, also a cucurbit, ...

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In early 1990, mooncakes made with a glutinous rice skin, colloquially called, "snow-skin", appeared on the market. These non-baked, chilled mooncakes were initially very traditional, and filled with the usual lotus seed, red mung bean or yam pastes. All changed in 1994, when Raffles Hotel in Singapore launched a snow-skin mooncake filled with champagne truffle. Häagen-Dazs followed on from this innovation, and were one of the first to create an ice-cream mooncake, with a choice of either the "traditional" snow-skin or Be ...

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The earliest Sino-German trading occurred overland through Siberia, and was subject to transit taxes by the Russian government. In order to make trading more profitable, Germany decided to take the sea route and the first German merchant ships arrived in China, then under the Qing Dynasty, as part of the Royal Prussian Asian Trading Company of Emden, in the 1750s. In 1861, following China's defeat in the Second Opium War, the Treaty of Tientsin was signed, which opened formal com ...

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Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Early Sino-German relations, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1920s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1930s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese industrialization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese military modernization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - End of Sino-German cooperation, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Legacy, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Notes

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Cantaloupe melons are a good source of potassium, vitamin A and folate. They are helpful to the kidneys and are a useful laxative. The proper name for the canteloupe, the kind that can be found in most supermarkets in the US, is musk melon. Real canteloupe melons are mostly available in Europe, among other places. Honeydew melons contain few nutrients and modest amounts of potassium but almost no vitamin A. ...

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The outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War on July 7, 1937 destroyed much of the progress and promises made in the nearly ten years of intense Sino-German cooperation. Besides the destruction of industries in the war, Adolf Hitler's foreign policy would prove the most detrimental to Sino-German relations. In essence, Hitler chose Japan as his ally against the Soviet Union, because Japan was militarily far more capable to resist Bolshevism.[17] In addition, the ...

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Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Early Sino-German relations, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1920s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1930s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese industrialization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese military modernization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - End of Sino-German cooperation, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Legacy, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Notes

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Sino-German cooperation of the 1930s was perhaps the most ambitious and successful of Sun Yat-sen's ideal of an "international development" to modernize China. Germany's loss of territories in China following World War I, its need for raw materials, and its lack of interest in Chinese politics, advanced the rate and productiveness of their cooperation with China, as both countries were able to cooperate on the basis of equality and economic dependability, without the imperialist undertones that marred much of other Sino-foreign relations. Ch ...

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Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Early Sino-German relations, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1920s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1930s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese industrialization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese military modernization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - End of Sino-German cooperation, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Legacy, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Notes

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Alexander von Falkenhausen was responsible for most of military training conducted as part of the deal. Original plans by von Seeckt called for a drastic reduction of the military to 60 well-equipped and well-trained divisions based on German military doctrines, but questions as to which factions get axed remained a problem. As a whole, officer corps trained by the Whampoa Academy up until 1927 were of marginally better quality than the warlord armies, but they remained valuable to Chiang Kai-shek for sheer loyalty.See also:

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The Treaty of Versailles severely limited Germany's industrial output. Its army was restricted to one hundred thousand men and its military production was greatly reduced. However, the treaty did not diminish Germany’s place as a leader in military innovation, and many industrial firms still retained the machinery and technology to produce military hardware. Therefore, to circumvent the treaty's restrictions, these industrial firms formed partnerships with foreign ...

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Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Early Sino-German relations, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1920s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1930s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese industrialization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese military modernization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - End of Sino-German cooperation, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Legacy, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Notes

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However, Sino-German trade slowed between 1930 and 1932 because of the Great Depression. [7] Furthermore, Chinese industrialization was not able to progress as fast as it could because of conflicting interests between various Chinese reconstruction agencies, German industries, German import-export houses and the Reichswehr, all of which wanted to profit from the development. Things did not pick up speed until the 1931 Mukden Incident, in which Manchu ...

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Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Early Sino-German relations, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1920s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1930s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese industrialization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese military modernization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - End of Sino-German cooperation, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Legacy, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Notes

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In 1936, China had only about 10,000 miles of railways, far lower than the 100,000 miles that Sun Yat-sen had envisioned for his ambition of a modernized China. In addition, half of these were in Manchuria, which was already lost to Japan and out of Kuomintang control. The slow progress of modernizing China's transportation was because conflicting foreign interests in China, such as the 1920 New Four-Power Consortium of British, French, American, and Japanese banking interests. This consortium aimed to regularize foreign investment in China ...

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Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Early Sino-German relations, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1920s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Sino-German cooperation in the 1930s, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese industrialization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Germany and Chinese military modernization, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - End of Sino-German cooperation, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Legacy, Sino-German cooperation 1911-1941 - Notes

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