Word: chiangs
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...female traitor to China," and a journal in Tianjin carried the headline: "Paramount Uses Anna May Wong to Embarrass China Again." Apparently not realizing that the villain Chang was a Communist, and Wong's Hui Fei, though a prostitute, was a brave Nationalist who kills Chang to save China, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government banned the film. Said Wong: "It's a pretty sad situation to be rejected by the Chinese because I am too American...
...DIED. FAINA FANG-LIANG CHIANG, 88, Siberian-born widow of former Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo; in Taipei. The shy Russian met her future husband, son of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, at a Soviet machinery plant at age 16. She married into the political dynasty in 1935. As First Lady from 1978 to 1988, Chiang avoided the public spotlight and lacked the glamour of her predecessor, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, but won respect for her modest lifestyle and dedication to her four children. Recalled Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, "She had the values of a traditional Chinese woman...
...preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy for the peasants caught between the battling political factions, and a gnawing desire to document the pitfalls of America's misguided efforts to prop up the regime of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek...
...chaos is a boon to the enterprising young journalist, who manages to meet many of the epoch's most colorful and influential characters?from Chiang, whose cozy relationship with TIME's editor-in-chief Henry Luce makes Rowan wonder if his stories will be censored, to China's impressively urbane first Premier, Zhou Enlai, to the aging ink-scroll master Qi Baishi, who, fearful of the Communists' hostility to his art, locks up his paints at night and wears the key on a rope around his waist...
...archrival, the Kuomintang (KMT). But if Taoyuan voter Chou Hui-mei, a 45-year-old furniture importer, is anything to go by, Chen's strategy is having some success bridging that ideological gap. Chou's parents were mainlanders who fled to the island along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in 1949, and she herself was once a member of the KMT. But she's switching sides, she says, because she agrees with the DPP's policy of putting Taiwan first. "I was born in Taoyuan and identify myself as Taiwanese," she says. "I'm not worried about China...