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...told," cried Feng sarcastically, "that when men in Honan desire to move to the adjoining province of Shensi in search of livelihood, their wives seize their gowns and sob, 'Ai-ya, my loved one, why will you go to that far-away place...
Though his student audience began to mutter at such blanket flaying of all Chinese, forthright, Marshal Feng pressed straight on with his speech, smashing home each point with a sounding fist blow upon the rostrum...
...Feng is Feng-and even Mrs. Feng is of the same pioneer stuff. He has never worn a silken robe that she could cling to, nor has she ever tried to restrain his bold and virile Daniel Booning. He leads and she presides over his private army-a band of 150,000 pioneering soldiers, each one of whom knows a trade...
Unlike all other Chinese forces, Feng's army has never lived by plunder. When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts. Delighted and dazzled, the local farmers are usually all too glad to barter rice and other produce for the soldier's work...
...Feng, omniscient housekeeper to an army, was one of the first young Chinawomen to become a Y.W.C.A. worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...