Bandits and captives at the Temple of the Clouds at the base of Paotzuku mountain, including Lee Solomon (second right, with cigarette) and former Cambridge student and banker Chi Cheng (centre), following the hijacking of China’s Peking Express. Photo: The State Historical Society of Missouri
The China train hijacking and 37-day hostage crisis that brought down a government
- In May 1923, Chinese bandits hijacked a luxury train and took foreign and local passengers hostage, resulting in a diplomatic crisis
- Beijing resident James Zimmerman tells the extraordinary story – the escapes, the shootings, the 37-day siege – in eye-widening detail in his new book
Bandits and captives at the Temple of the Clouds at the base of Paotzuku mountain, including Lee Solomon (second right, with cigarette) and former Cambridge student and banker Chi Cheng (centre), following the hijacking of China’s Peking Express. Photo: The State Historical Society of Missouri
Corrected [12:24pm, 1 Apr, 2023]
- [12:24pm, 1 Apr, 2023]
The frescoes at the Temple of the Clouds were Taoist, not Buddhist. Italian lawyer Giuseppe Musso was a shareholder, but not a board member, of the South China Morning Post.
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