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...natives, Germany is Deutschland, Egypt is Misr, Greece is Hellas, Finland is Suomi, China is Chung-Hua Min-Kuo ("The Middle Flowery Republic") and officially trilingual Switzerland is Schweiz, Suisse or Svizzera...
...Francis Cho-min Wei, President of Hua Chung College (Central China College), Wuchang, China, will give three public lectures on Confucianism at Harvard, Oct. 29, 30, and 31, and will conduct morning chapel at Harvard College...
...untranslatable title of All Men Are Brothers is Shui Hu Chuan-three words which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their...
...said he had buried 23 wives, was living with his 24th. a woman of 60, had descendants of eleven generations. The fingernails of his venerable right hand were six inches long. Yet to skeptical Western eyes he looked much like any Chinese 60-year-old. In 1930 Professor Wu Chung-chieh, dean of the department of education at Chengtu University, found records that the Imperial Chinese Government had congratulated one Li Ching-yun in 1827 on his birthday. The birthday was his 150th, making the man who died last week-if it was the same Li Ching-yun, and respectful...
Naval aviators too hold her in high regard. One whole room of Dr. Chung's suite is lined with photos of flyers, bits of wreckage. It is a tradition in California Navy yards to send to Margie Chung the insignia from the wings of wrecked Navy planes. Recently the troubles of her father's country began to prey on her mind. Last week she announced that the first units of the Chung Air & Medical Corps would sail for the front within a month...