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Word: cheng (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week news came of a secret meeting at Paris between five Chinese Ministers, to try and decide from what Chinese faction they would take orders. They were: Chao Hsin-chu (Minister to Rome and Representative before the League); Tcheng-loh (Minister to Paris) ; Wei Cheng-tchean (Berlin) ; Fang King-ky (Brussels) ; and Wang Kuang-ky (The Hague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Puzzled Ministers | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...League, Chu Chao-hsin again* exploded a bombshell of anti-British propaganda at Geneva. Meek-eyed, expressionless, he requested the floor for four minutes. While many a delegate yawned, he announced that he would present to the League a copy of the Ku Chin Tu Shu Chi Cheng. This he explained is the Chinese Encyclopaedia, in 800 volumes, containing 800,000 pages, and requiring for storage purposes nine large bookcases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Fruitful Adjournment | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Ying, former Minister of Justice to form a Cabinet. Dr. Cheng Ting Wang, Yale graduate, sometime President of the Senate, was declared to have accepted the post of Foreign Minister in the new Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hsu Dead, Hsu Premier | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Died. General Hsu Shu-cheng ("Little Hsu"), friend of Tuan Chijui (Chief Executive of China), shot to death at Langfang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 11, 1926 | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...Cheng Ting Wang, Yale graduate who presented the Chinese demands a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 9), declared: "The American proposals offer a most promising basis for the settlement of the tariff question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Customs Conference | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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