Word: chiang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appropriately President Chiang was inaugurated, last week, on the day called "Double Ten"?the anniversary of that historic "tenth day of the tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten" was joyously celebrated at the bomb town of Hankow with a splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census...
Contrastingly dignified was the solemn investiture and swearing in of President Chiang Kai-shek. Since religion has been utterly divorced from Nationalism, no Bible or other symbol of the supernatural was in evidence. The new Chief Executive simply bowed three times before a portrait of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen (founder of the Nationalist Party), swore to uphold Dr. Sun's famed Three Nationalist Principles, and finally invoked three times as a potent witness the spirit of SUN YATSEN. When President Chiang had thus sworn, he was followed in the same ritual by five lesser Presidents, each of whom...
Correspondents who sought out the new President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...
...persons of lively imagination realized that in the precise little man before them they beheld the greatest and most romantic Conqueror of today. All of vast China has been his battlefield, and from South to North he has conquered or reduced all to submission. Geographically the arena of Marshal Chiang's triumph dwarfs to insignificance that in which was fought the Great War? for China is four times as large as the total battle areas of Europe, with the Balkans thrown in. From the standpoint of manpower and gunpower the comparison of course, reverses itself; but none the less Generalissimo...
Life came to President Chiang Kai-shek 41 years ago in the minute village of Fenghwa in Chekiang Province. After running away from being apprenticed to a merchant he managed to win a military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried...