Word: chungli
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Clearly, it was not. The new Constitution, said Dr. Wang Chung-hui, one of the drafters, was not considered satisfactory by any one party or group, but this fact proved that it was acceptable to all. It was, he said, a "unique democratic Constitution of the most modern type...
...whole life. But I regard your translation as superior to any before it.-I hope you will continue until you have finished the entire New Testament. Thus you will slake the thirst of all Christians in China . . . and help our Christianity spread ever more widely. Best wishes, Chung-cheng" (Chiang's intimate or "courtesy" signature...
...prompt support of grey-goateed Ma came passionate, pockmarked Yang Ti-chung, a Western-clad tribesman of the 71st generation from Kweichow. Yang said he represented 50 million Yi and Miao people, almost half the population of Sikang, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Yunnan and Hunan.* Yang invoked the shade of Sun Yatsen, also threatened withdrawal...
...Bravo!" and "Disrupter!", Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek scribbled an unofficial note to Provisional Chairman Sun Fo. Secretary-General Hung Lan-yu glanced at it, got silence, announced: "The delegate from Kweichow, Chang Tao-fan, voluntarily withdraws as candidate . . . and offers his place to his provincial colleague Yang Ti-chung...
...practical reason for believing that one picture is worth a thousand words: it takes so long for them to write the words. And all their written words are conventionalized pictures anyway. Last week a new typewriter designed to speed up Chinese writing was exhibited in Manhattan. Chinese engineer Chung-Chin Kao had had the idea. International Business Machines Corp. had translated it into an electro-automatic Chinese typewriter. (Chinese typewriters are not new, but most models have been clumsy and inefficient...