Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Periodically, in the tough years of war since that accident, Madame has felt at the end of her rope. She has usually blamed the way the chauffeur drove that car, but she should have blamed the way she drove herself. As the Government moved from Nanking to Hankow and from...
Warphans. Madame herself never had any children. When Chungking was terribly bombed in 1939, Madame took on herself the job of caring for what she called China's Warphans. After one particularly bad bombing, after she had been on her feet all night going from fire to charnel fire...
Alling (literally: "Friendly Life") Soong had married Dr. H. H. Kung, longtime Minister of Finance. In China Mme. Kung was known for her wealth. She was grave, efficient, strongwilled. Ching-ling ("Happy Life") was the idealist, the incarnation of the spirit of her late husband, Sun Yatsen. She was in...
Chungking: choong-ching.
Stolid, stocky Chang Chun, 55, "the Gissimo's one-man brain trust," is Governor of Szechwan and leader of the top-notch circle of industrial planners known as the Political Science Group. An able administrator, he has done an admirable job since 1940 of breaking Chungking's province...