Word: cheng
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gilding of Chih Hang [June 8] is not the first, nor will it be the last such deification of a revered monk by a Chinese congregation. My favorite is that of Abbot Soong Chiu-cheng, who in death takes a much nicer picture than does Chih Hang...
TAIPEI, Formosa, March 26--Rebels in Tibet have cut supply lines of the Red Chinese garrison, forcing it to rely on airdrops from China proper, Nationalist China Vice President Chen Cheng asserted today...
Chiang had already pointed to a successor last year by adding the premiership to the other duties of his old comrade-at-arms Vice President Chen Cheng (TIME, July 14). But the Gimo himself intends to keep things in hand by retaining the powerful director-generalship of the Kuomintang Party...
...Battle of Quemoy 1958 began early last August, when Chinese Nationalist reconnaissance pilots flying RF-84 jets over the Formosa Strait spotted Communist MIGs on two previously unoccupied airfields at Cheng-hai and Lien-cheng facing Formosa and the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. The evaluation: Red China, locked up inside its borders since the Formosa Strait crisis of 1954-55, was once more on the move in Asia. The confirmation: Red China's air force opened up a careful reconnaissance of Quemoy...
...special occasions, Cheng Ch'i's indomitable editors have even delivered sample copies to the mainland-stuffed inside 155-mm. artillery shells...