Word: chekiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Techniques of Scranton. Forty-eight-year-old Chen, like 60-year-old Chiang, was born in Chekiang province. Of eight brothers, only he and Chen Kuo-fu (eight years older and now the serene, tuberculous director of the powerful Farmers' Bank of China) are still alive. Chen's childhood was poor and insecure. But among Chen's kin was an uncle, doughty Chen Chi-mei, revolutionary general and patron of young Chiang Kaishek. On his deathbed, Uncle Chen summoned Chiang...
...broadening the paper's scope with articles by Chinese and U.S. contributors, he has rebuilt its circulation to 7,500. But few English-reading students and teachers can afford to pay $2,000 (about 16?) a copy. Wrote one reader in Chekiang Province, canceling his subscription...
...enemies, an Oriental Himmler, Plehve and Torquemada combined; to his friends, a ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His flat brown nose, wide-set black eyes and triangular ebony brows had appeared in few published photos. His birthplace was Chekiang, Chiang Kai-shek's native province. He studied at Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang was president...
Rice-eating Southerners, the slim, shrewd sophisticates of Chekiang and Fukien, would go back to their poems, books and lotus seeds. Canton's markets and midnight snackeries would be abuzz again. The Hangchow people would see their lovely lakes. The Soochow girls would croon their languid songs...
...closed each eye for a few months in the past, but the Chinese had reopened them. Not until this year did the Japs decide to deprive China again of what was now its last outlook to the east. Early in September, they put out the northern eye, Wenchow, in Chekiang Province...