Word: chung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Begun last month was another of Roy Chapman Andrews' perennial excursions into the dismal wastes of Gobi Desert. Prime object of the expedition: to find traces of some twigs from the family tree of the "Peking Man." world's earliest human discovered comparatively recently near Peking by Pei Wen-chung, Chinese archeologist...
...Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," indeed the "Foremost of the Pear Orchard," disembarked from an ocean steamship in Seattle last week. He was a small, girlish-looking Chinese gentleman. In his curiously carven and vivid luggage were layers of sumptuous fabrics, great coils and shining lumps of jewelry. Twenty Chinamen accompanied "The Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," certain of them bearing strangely shaped cases containing musical instruments...
...summoned to appear before onetime Emperor Hsuan T'ung in the Yang Hsin Palace of the Forbidden City. There he was presented with delicate, imperial porcelains and dubbed "Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," traditional title bestowed by the Manchu Emperors on their favorite actors. He was also allowed to retain the title "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" which is derived from the fact that during the T'ang Dynasty court actors called themselves "Disciples of the Pear Orchard" because they performed in a palace bordered with pear trees. Few would deny any title, however lofty...