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Mao Tse-tung had called for honest criticism of his government and, lo, from Canton to Chungking there was criticism. The walls of Peking University blazed with multicolored placards pointedly demanding "What is more precious than individual liberty?", angrily proclaiming that "Graduate students know very little because they are allowed...
Han Suyin is an attractive Eurasian (Chinese and French) physician with a born flair for melodramatizing her life. In Destination Chungking (1942), it was her barely disguised experiences as a young girl whose pleasant existence in Peking was rudely shattered by war. Her husband, Chinese General Tang Pao Huang, was...
The inner certainty this gave him was Chiang's strength, and the force that for 22 years held China together. Threatened with death when the Young Marshal kidnaped him in Sian in the famed 1936 incident, Chiang refused to make any concessions: "If I should try to save my...
Author Emily Hahn, whose youthful passion for Manila cigars, free love and self-advertisement caused arching eyebrows from Shanghai to Chungking in the 19305, has now maturely channeled her fierce independence to good cause. With the informal, sometimes gabby style of her China Coast pieces in The New Yorker, and...
Died. Aw Boon Haw, 72, fabulously wealthy Hong Kong Chinese (donations to charity alone: $20 million) of a heart ailment; in Honolulu. Son of a Rangoon herb dealer, genial Philanthropist Haw parlayed a patent medicine named Tiger Balm into an Asian empire embracing hotels, breweries, factories and a string of...