Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Japan added Jehol Province to its Manchurian grab in 1932, it got one splendid old ruin with its haul-the 17th Century hunting lodge of the old Manchu Emperors of China, spread over the hills outside Jehol City. By last week it was still overgrown with weeds but Japan planned to make it fresh and new to remind Manchukuans of the ancestral glories of their puppet Emperor Kang...
...with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls. The Emperor and his court hunted deer and boar in the rolling hills of its great park while the imperial ladies went boating on its lotus-covered lakes in barges. When the great Kang Hsi, sometimes rated above his contemporaries Louis XIV and Peter the Great, built it and moved...
...mandarins on short native Phu-Yen horses met her in the Valley of Clouds and escorted her through the three walls of the Red City into the Palace of Passengers. Next day, dressed in a great brocaded Annamite gown, she stepped into an automobile and was driven to the Emperor's Palace, followed by the Imperial princesses and the blue-turbaned wives of the mandarins. Two scrolls, on which were written a prayer to Bao Dai's ancestors and the name and age (18) of Nguyen Huu Hao, were burnt on the altars. Finally the two young people...
...When the Emperor announced his choice of a wife, someone blundered by giving out the news that Pope Pius XI was considering a bargain to let Nguyen Huu Hao remain a Catholic if she gave the Church her girl children. The Holy Father is thoroughly aware of the political and religious state of affairs in Annam. It would be foolish to embarrass the French Government with any dogmatic decisions. The Christian girl may have much or little to say about what her children become. And the less the Annamites know about it the better...
Married. Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic; and Bao Dai, 21, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; in Hûe, Annam Married. Nila Cram Cook, 25, eccentric onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi; and Albert M. Hutchins, 28, steward on the freighter which brought her home to the U. S. from India; in Manhattan...