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Leland D. Burlingame, of Lebanon, N. H. S.B. U. of N. H.; Pao-tung Ching, of Shanghai, China, S.M. Purdue '40; George A. Clemow, of Billings, Mont., S.B. Montana State '40; Ping Chuan Feng, of Peiping, China, S.M. Yenching '34; Ewan W. Fletcher, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert E. Geauque, of St. Louis., S.M. Missouri '40; Vernon B. Hammer, of Portland, Ore., S.B. Washington '40; William Franklin, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn...
...family life, singsong girls, bandits, war lords, scholars, intrigue. This bootleg literature, called hsiaoshuo, or "a little talk," is still read by millions of Chinese. Three Kingdoms (San Kuo), written in the 13th Century, is still the great source book of guerrilla tactics; All Men Are Brothers* (Shui Hu Chuan) is hailed by Reds as China's first Communist literature...
...predominant in North China will see all their silver slip through their fingers to Nanking. One way to stop such a slip was to scare the daylights out of China by another "Shanghai Incident." In Peiping, where Japanese last week forced the installation of puppet Mayor Chin Teh-chuan, Japanese military authorities gave an inkling of what the Araki Brothers may be up to by having their official spokesman boom: "If North China should send her silver to Nanking, the economic structure of North China would collapse, and Japan's attempt to build up the prosperity of this part...
...untranslatable title of All Men Are Brothers is Shui Hu Chuan-three words which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their...
...Elder by his wicked wife and the bawdy old woman; the Tattooed Priest, a kind of Friar Tuck of the outlaws; the robbers' rescue of the youth about to be executed. Though some of the incidents would never have passed Queen Victoria (in the 18th Century Shui Hu Chuan was banned in China as "licentious") they are narrated always with polite decency...