Word: chungli
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...invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
...Snuff. In Newark, police discovered that practically all the patrons of Ah Lee Chung's den were required to bring their own opium...
Chinese clustered swiftly as the wet and shiny newspapers were pasted on Chung king's walls. Solemnly they spelled out the black news. Teachers told their pupils, and some cried openly over Lo Tsung-t'ung (President Roosevelt), the man who symbolized America's good will and her good help. A puzzled ricksha man asked: "But who killed him? Who killed him?" A peasant sadly shook his head: "Szu-te t'ai tsao liao!-It was too soon that he died." One Chinese driver turned to an American on an Army jeep, mustered all the English...
N.E.P. Don Nelson could report on another momentous decision in Chungking. A committee of the Generalissimo's National Defense Council, headed by scholarly Drs. Sun Fo and Wang Chung-hui, had outlined a "New Economic Policy" for postwar China...
...bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...