Word: china
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because of the importance of air transportation in a sprawling, railway-poor country like China, there should be a model airport in the centre of the city...
These were some of the plans disclosed last week by deep-voiced, horn-bespectacled Henry Killam Murphy, able Manhattan architect, designer of"Yale in China" (Ya-li), Changsha, Hunan; Yenching University, Peking; William ("Billy") Lyon Phelps's residence. New Haven, Conn. Undeterred by wars, far-sighted President Chiang Kai-shek had commissioned Architect Murphy to plan a new city of Nanking, a new capital for the Nationalist government...
...yesterday. At the same time it was also announced that Professor James Haughton Woods '87 of the Department of Philosophy would be on a leave of absence for the first half of 1929-30. He has been invited by the Harvard-Yenching Institute to go on a mission to China...
...Nanking last week, the progressive Nationalist Government passed a decree forbidding decapitation as a method of punishment. The abolishment of decapitation, however, does not even remotely imply the abolishment of capital punishment in China. It is merely the long, bright, classic sword of the headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime...
When the first volume of Capital was published (in German) it raised no great storm. It was to do its work later ? in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, Latin-America, China. It was not a guidebook for revolutionists. It was the fountainhead of a social current...