Word: chien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vera Micheles Dean, Radcliffe '25, a leading American foreign policy expert, and Taun-sheng Chien, Ph.D. '24, one of China's foremost political scientists, are the new faculty members, with appointments dating from February...
...Chien was graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1920, and then spent four years at Harvard which gained him an A.M. and a Ph.D. He is now professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Law at Peking National University in China...
There was no question but that China's Communists viewed the plight of the Nationalist Government with relish. They liked U.S. no-policy even better than U.S. mediation. Departing from Peiping for Yenan by plane last week, Communist Commissioner Yeh Chien-ying cried: "Long live Chinese-American cooperation...
...under the surface, Shanghai is radically changed. The most important undercurrent now is almost universal uncertainty. The most fundamental change is in the city government. Foreign control by the taipans-businessmen-is no more. The old, British-dominated municipal council is gone. The mayor is plump, round-faced, impassive Chien Ta-chun, an old follower of the Generalissimo. Some 20 Chinese councilmen run the municipal departments, amid a plenitude of teacups, basins, hot towels and hot-water thermos jugs (the Chinese believe in working comfortably). You still see the picturesque bearded Sikh policemen directing traffic, but they will be repatriated...
...Gabby") Gabreski, 26, affable, much-decorated ace (28 Nazi planes); and Kay Cochran, ?i ; in Prairie du Chien...