{"id":13839,"date":"2011-03-21T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:57:13","slug":"a-postcard-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=13839","title":{"rendered":"A postcard from afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/zhou-fu-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13842 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/zhou-fu-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/old.ireneeng.com\/?p=34294\">Peter<\/a> who found this item <a href=\"http:\/\/old.ireneeng.com\/?p=34759\">that\u2019s being auctioned<\/a>: Chou Fu (Zhou Fu) had his own Western-style brass band in Qingdao (Tsingtau) when he was \u5de1\u629a Governor of Shantung (Shandong) from 1902 to 1904 before he took up the Viceroy-ship at <a href=\"http:\/\/old.ireneeng.com\/?p=32319\">\u4e24\u6c5f liang jiang<\/a> that referred to \u6307\u6c5f\u5357\u7701(\u4eca\u6c5f\u82cf Jiangsu \u548c\u5b89\u5fbd Anhui) \u548c\u6c5f\u897f\u7701 Jiangxi in <a href=\"http:\/\/old.ireneeng.com\/?p=25190\">Sept 1904<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=13818\">2026: Hart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/zhou-fu-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-13841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/zhou-fu-large-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=13818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-13822\" title=\"2026 Hart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_9274-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Peter who found this item that\u2019s being auctioned: Chou Fu (Zhou Fu) had his own Western-style brass band in Qingdao (Tsingtau) when he&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=13839\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A postcard from afar<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zhou-","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13850,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions\/13850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}