https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/benvanderhulst Please create a visual timeline for important events in your family history project from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. In creating this timeline, attention should be paid to the intersections between macro-level events and the micro-level personal stories. en-us 2022-03-03 11:26:59 UTC 2022-03-07 19:57:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f550.png bvanderhulst https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/benvanderhulst/wish/2082387391 In the 1850s, our Jin (金) family moved back into the Huangpu District of Shanghai, now a treaty port. The patriarch of the family, Jin Huang (金煌), was a Silk and Tea trader who provided for the family while his children were young. ]]> 2022-03-07 19:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/benvanderhulst/wish/2082387391 bvanderhulst https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/benvanderhulst/wish/2082387735 Jin Huang (金煌), a middle-aged adult living in the Huangpu district of Shanghai, was forced to flee the city over the course of a week due to the British war ships that bombarded the city during the first opium war.]]> 2022-03-07 19:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/benvanderhulst/wish/2082387735 bvanderhulst https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/benvanderhulst/wish/2082414303 The Jin family was generally well off after Huang passed away in 1865. His wife, Jin Fen (金芬), passed away shortly after Huang. Huang's first-born son, Jin Jianyu (金监狱), now in his late 30s, worked in the same business as his father until afflicted by an opium addiction which slowly killed him. Jianyu died in 1901, with two children in their mid 20s succeeding him. ]]> 2022-03-07 19:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/benvanderhulst/wish/2082414303 bvanderhulst https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/benvanderhulst/wish/2082454252 Jianyu's children, Mian (眠) and Hong (洪) were critics of the Qing dynasty and supported the revolutionaries in 1912. Their support for the revolution came from a poor life following their fathers addiction and death. Mian and Hong were not able to succeed in getting a job as their father did, and they credited the misfortune to the failing Qing dynasty.

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