Juye is a county in western Shandong

Shandong

' is a Province located on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese...

 province which is under the administration of Heze

Heze

Heze is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. The westernmost prefecture-level city in Shandong, it borders Jining to the east and the provinces of Henan and Anhui to the west and south respectively. The old name of Heze was Caozhou and now a part...

 municipality. The county is 1,303 square km in area and has a population of approximately 910,000.

Qing & Republic

Juye was the site of the so-called "Juye Incident

Juye Incident

The Juye Incident refers to the events of November 1, 1897, when a band of twenty to thirty armed men broke into a Catholic missionary compound in Juye County and killed Richard Henle and Francis Xavier Nies, two German missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word...

" on November 1, 1897, which provided the German government an excuse to occupy Jiaozhou Bay

Jiaozhou Bay

The Jiaozhou Bay is a sea gulf located in Qingdao Prefecture of Shandong Province. It was a German colonial concession from 1898 until 1914....

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Liberation

From 1949 to 1952 Huxi prefecture (Juye and the other county-level parts) was under the provincial administration of Pingyuan

Pingyuan (province)

Pingyuan was a province of the People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1952. Its capital was Xinxiang City, now in Xinxiang, Henan.-Territory:...

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In April 1953 Huxi was dismantled and its parts shared out. Juye then came into its present municipal region of Heze.

External links

• Juye Online (Chinese)
• Juye Merchant Network (Chinese)