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General Tu studied his father's History well. In 1945, he put ancient Chinese tactics to good use to unseat (on the Generalissimo's orders) the old warlord of Yunnan Province, Lung Yun. Tu told Warlord Lung that Nationalist troops would merely be holding maneuvers in Yunnan'...
On formal occasions, when many guests are invited to Chiang's household, Chen almost never appears. Yet with probably no other person, not excepting Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that literacy was a military weapon for an army that needed leaders. In 1940, near bombed-out Chungking, the National College for Rural Reconstruction was founded, with Yen as president.
In a rebuttal to Professor Mather's arguments, Karl Sax, professor of Botany, pointed to the immense populations of Asia, particularly India and China, where an increased standard of living must point inevitably toward overpopulation far beyond any possible supply of resources. But Mather countered with his belief that these...
In 1938, forced back by the Japanese, Chiang gave old friend Chang the job of getting remote Szechwan province under control, in preparation for moving the capital to Chungking. He made Chang, himself a Szechwanese, the governor. But the close-knit Szechwan old guard refused to accept Chang. Thereupon the...