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Word: fu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trebitsch Lincoln drifted eastward, intriguing with French and Czech agents on the way, turned up in China, where for a time he seemed to be close to the late Warlord Wu Pei-fu. About the time his son was executed in England for murdering a brewer's assistant, Trebitsch Lincoln became a Buddhist. He had his bullet pate shaved and branded with the twelve circular symbols of the Buddhist wheel of life, took the name of Chao Kung. He made a trip to Germany (where he was jailed for an old debt), later accumulated some white followers, kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Again, Chao Kung | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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