Word: ch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hung Hsiu-ch'uan was a kind of Chinese John Brown, a religious zealot who saw his rebellion succeed-for a time. A poor provincial schoolteacher, he rose to lead the Taiping Rebellion, which ravaged China between 1851 and 1864, and cost the lives of an estimated 20 million people. Since Hung was a professing if distinctly unorthodox Christian, who ruled some 30 million subjects at the peak of his power, he has left behind him one of the most tantalizing ifs in history: If he had toppled the Manchu Dynasty and mounted the Dragon Throne, would China...
Divine Trance. Born near Canton, Hung Hsiu-ch'uan ("The Accomplished and Perfected'') at first longed to be a civil servant. Disheartened at flunking exams, and already possessed of fragments of Christianity, he fell ill and went into a 40-day trance. During the trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...
...After two crowded days in which judges looked over a total of 2,544 entries, Judge Thomas H. Carruthers III bestowed the Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show designation, dogdom's topflight honor, on a saucy, 4½-year-old, English-bred miniature poodle bitch, Ch. Fontclair Festoon. "The poodle was in beautiful form," said Carruthers, "full of quality, and moved perfectly." Flushed with success, Festoon will be retired from the show ring to the business of bearing high-priced pups...
...been made. "Australian port," so labeled, may not be sold in Great Britain, nor may Spanish "champagne" be sold in Spain. We in America have eliminated all but a handful of these so-called generic names, and American vintners may no longer market, as in the bad old days, "Château d'Yquem" and "Château Margaux" from California...
...special occasions, Cheng Ch'i's indomitable editors have even delivered sample copies to the mainland-stuffed inside 155-mm. artillery shells...