Canadian doctor Tillson Harrison first delivered badly needed medical supplies to the Handan International Peace Hospital in September 1946. Four months later, he set out from Shanghai with another convoy through Nationalist-controlled territory; a journey that should have taken...
Three wartime banks, the North China Bank, the Beihai Bank and the Northwest Farmers Bank, merged in Shijiazhuang on 1 December 1948 to form the People's Bank of China, which issued the first notes of what would become the...
