Word: changsha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These were some of the plans disclosed last week by deep-voiced, horn-bespectacled Henry Killam Murphy, able Manhattan architect, designer of"Yale in China" (Ya-li), Changsha, Hunan; Yenching University, Peking; William ("Billy") Lyon Phelps's residence. New Haven, Conn. Undeterred by wars, far-sighted President Chiang Kai-shek had commissioned Architect Murphy to plan a new city of Nanking, a new capital for the Nationalist government...
Architect Henry Killam Murphy is famed for his many notable successes in blending Occidental materials into Chinese style. He designed the building of Yenching College, Peiping, Yale-in-China, Changsha, and Gingling College, Nanking. He will now receive carte blanche to transform Nanking into a modern, imposing and yet Chinese capital, may spend...
...said Mr. Edmunds. "The Chinese attitude is wholesome, and the Nationalist movement, at any rate in Canton, [where it originated] is promising"; 3) announcement at New Haven, Conn., by the trustees of Yale-In-China that Dr. Edward H. Hume, President of this U. S.-financed Chinese college at Changsha, has resigned and will be replaced as soon as possible by a Chinese...
...numbers grew from a few thousand to a quarter of a million. Those Chinese against the move were terrorized into submission. All Chinese were exhorted to "assassinate foreign police," "assassinate foreigners connected with the law courts." The general situation grew worse as each day passed. The strike spread to Changsha and Nanking, capitals of Hunan and Kiangsu. Sniping tactics were bgeun. Officials from Peking arrived, opened a conference with the Chinese and foreign authorities. Canton. The situation at Canton began with sympathy parades for the Shanghai strikers. Threats against the foreign population at Canton and Hong-Kong were heard. Foreign...
...clear day, the students of Yali College, Changsha (Yale-in-China), were engaged in a football* game against Boone University of Wuchang. Play was heated; the referee was somnolent; a bullethead from Yali altercated with a slant-eyed Wuchang. Fists flew; both teams stopped to watch the scufflers. Suddenly, into the melee, came pelting a gentleman in a long gown of scholarly silk-Professor Kau (Yali). Forthwith, he smote down the Yali scuffler, strode away...