Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The people of Chungking were shocked even by the customs of the modernized coastal Chinese who retreated to the province six years ago. The U.S. soldiers depart even further than the coastal Chinese from Chungking social conventions. Chungking people believe that woman's place is in the home, that...
In Chungking the U.S. Army employs many English-speaking Chinese girls, mostly from Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. They have been brought up under Western influences. They like to dance, date boys, kid around. But when they dated U.S. soldiers, Chungking confused them with the jeep girls who ply their trade...
Orders are for G.I.s to get out fast from such commotions, under no circumstances to start a brawl in defense of what they believe to be their rights. Now M.P.s in white painted jeeps patrol Chungking's main street. They work with the Chinese police whose orders are to...
From Chungking, too, there was exciting news of relaxed censorship. But the excitement proved to be all one man's -and he was all wrong.
The one man was ferret-eyed Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard's hopabout journalist who rarely stays in any one country long enough for a second breath, or a second thought. Within 48 hours of reaching Chungking, he had seen Chiang Kai-shek and was breathlessly cabling home: "Generalissimo...