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MOVIES . . . CHUNGKING EXPRESS: "Wong kar-wai is the world's finest unknown auteur," says Corliss. Largely ignored in America, the 38-year-old Hong Kong writer-director is either a box-office sensation or a cult hero in Asia and Europe. The U.S. release of his cool-jazzy 1994 romantic...
In September 1939 a fledgling journalist named Theodore H. White left Chongqing (Chungking), China's wartime capital, for Shanxi province, 800 miles away. On assignment for TIME, White journeyed to the northern region to report on a remote battlefield where Chinese troops, contrary to expectations, had been holding their...
Nearly 45 years ago, just out of Harvard and still trying to master the intricacies of Mandarin, Theodore H. White made his way to China and found a land in turmoil. Settling in Chiang Kai-shek's wartime capital of Chongqing (Chungking), then a drowsy Yangtze River port with a...
Donovan was an eclectic recruiter; among the people he brought into the OSS were Conservative Columnist Stewart Alsop, Marxist Political Philosopher Herbert Marcuse, and Chef Julia Child, who tended intelligence files at the OSS office in Chongqing (Chungking). So many OSS people were listed in the Social Register that critics...
During World War II, Teng helped set up a highly effective guerrilla force against the Japanese in North China. After Japan's surrender, the group continued its operations against Chiang's Nationalist armies. When the Communists took power in 1949, Teng served as the party boss of South China and...