Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that by tricks and spells one could ward off devils, and that it was dangerous not to respect one's omnipresent ancestors. Thus had Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism deteriorated. But Christianity had appeared to "revive" these lowly Chinese. Last week the most exalted man in China, General Chiang Kaishek, president of the Nationalist government, became and was baptized a Christian; to be exact, a Methodist...
...Chiang is as much a Conqueror as was Constantine I (288-337 A.D.), the Roman general who espoused Christianity when convinced that by the Sign of the Cross he would conquer, and who did conquer Rome itself, became emperor. Two years ago, when still a Buddhist, General Chiang, with his Christian wife praying for him, conquered all of China proper (TIME, June 21, 1928 et ante). He has just been through a long summer of battles to consolidate his conquest. Last week there was no apparent reason, except sincere conviction, why the president should have gone to his mother...
...were reported last week in Kiangsi province. The slogan of the hour is "China for the Chinese!" And some Chinese consider Christianity un-Chinese. With these facts in mind Pastor Kaung said last week of his presidential convert: "At this time, when anti-Christian agitation is particularly rife, General Chiang's act required the highest moral courage...
...Nanking, seat of the central Chinese "National Government," recognized by the U. S., headed by stalwart little President Chiang Kaishek, jubilant mobs hailed the new status of Peking as meaning that "their" troops were taking it over. News extras said that Manchuria's Chang had accepted the rank of "vice commander of the Nationalist army & navy"?that is to say, he had climbed off his neutral fence, proclaimed himself a 100% Nationalist...
...Feng and Chang are Northerners. North and South China are agelong foes. But last week Southerner Chiang Kaishek, President at Nanking, could at least boast that he had broken and hurled back if not destroyed the armies of Yen and Feng which last spring seemed bent on his extermination. Next spring will be another spring...