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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seen today, now that all this is known, the conquering advance of General Chiang -first 600 miles from Canton inland to Hankow ("The Chicago of China"); then 600 miles down the Yangtze River to Shanghai ("The New York of China") and Nanking-was not primarily a great feat of arms. General Chiang had not yet developed many of his great qualities. He was almost an out-&-out puppet of the Soviet Union, but, as both Japan and Russia have found to their cost, no Chinese ever fully sells himself or China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man & Wife of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Conqueror Chiang immediately made friends with the Chinese businessmen of Shanghai, turned violently antiCommunist, massacred some 3,500 unimportant Shanghai Reds, permitted Propagandist Borodin and General Galen to "escape" to the Soviet Union. He later made Communism a capital crime. General Chiang's only son by his No. 1 wife, Chiang Ching-kuo, had by this time moved to Moscow, busied himself denouncing his father from Soviet platforms, became a Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man & Wife of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...Charlie's Daughters. Until recently any prominent Chinese obliged to be much away from home usually had one or more concubines (with the knowledge & consent of his wife), and successful General Chiang at this time was no exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man & Wife of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...swankier of the Conqueror's concubines found her social doings recorded even in the British press of Shanghai, which referred to her as "Mme Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man & Wife of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...General Chiang was now master of South and Central China but many Kuomintang politicians denounced him as a Fascist or worse. With a characteristic gesture he resigned all his offices and went to Japan. There Chiang, the shrewd, hardheaded, hard-living, callous soldier who had made his way to power, proceeded to court pretty, educated, high-minded Soong Meiling. Her brother, Mr. T. V. Soong, today China's greatest financier, informed General Chiang as courteously as possible that a husband with concubines was scarcely acceptable as a suitor in the Chinese Christian family of Soong. Mei-ling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man & Wife of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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