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Bumble-Bee

December 15, 2019

Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff[1] (8 July 1803 – 9 August 1851), anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff, was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and in Korea (1832). He was also the first Lutheran missionary to China. He was a magistrate in Ningpo and Chusan and the second Chinese Secretary of the British administration in Hong Kong.

He wrote widely read books and served as interpreter for British diplomatic missions during the First Opium War. Gützlaff was one of the first Protestant missionaries in China to wear Chinese clothing.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_G%C3%BCtzlaff)

Sachsen Onkel

April 19, 2017

Through it was regulated in the colonial period, the shipping traffic in Shanghai.

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Tom Rambler

August 5, 2017

The Gutzlaff Signal Tower, also known as the Bund Weather Tower or the Bund Signal Tower is a major landmark in Shanghai's Bund. It is a 36.8m tall (50m focal height) signal station built in Art Deco style, originally intended to provide weather information to ships on the Huangpu river, in particular typhoon warnings.

History

A signal station was first built in the Bund area by the French in 1865, soon after the cession of Shanghai's foreign concession. It was rebuilt in 1884, at the time of the establishment of the Zikawei Observatory by French Jesuits. The current structure was built in 1907, and named after Karl Gützlaff. The tower signaled weather reports five times a day, and gave emergency flag signals in case of typhoon or sudden inclement weather. Its operation was discontinued in 1956.

The tower was moved 23 m to its current location in 1993, and was reconstructed in 1999. Currently, the first floor houses a museum of history of the Bund, and the second floor a cafe.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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