Word: chian
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...great political geniuses of all time. Over a span of thirty years he personally molded a classic revolution and within three years of his victory, had crisscrossed China's vast expanse with the most complex and effective political apparatus the country has ever known. The accomplishment cluded Chian Kai-shek for as many years, as it cluded the warlords for ten years before...
Chinese painting, chian said, has a long tradition, dating back to 3000 B.C., and it has been a painting of "taste." The Chinese painter, he added, has been concerned with seeking the "poetic truths of both man and nature," and this, he said, should be continued by the Chinese painter today...
...Japan, was voicing the aspiration of millions of Chinese The announced policy of the kidnapper is so exceedingly popular-even if it is an ex-dope's not too bright idea-that almost every Chinese inevitably must be more or less drawn to it, even Dictator Chian" who knows that he cannot procrastinate forever...
...taste was more than usually sensitive, kept fine and discriminating by the restraint in which he held it. Indeed, all his senses, except sight, were acute. The wine he drank was the delicate unresinated Greek wine,--Corinthian, or Chian, or Cyprian; the amount of water to be mixed with each being carefully debated and employed. Each winter a cask was sent him from a special vineyard on the heights of Corinth, and occasioned something like a general rejoicing in Cambridge, so widely were its flavourous contents distributed...