Word: fukien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fukien University in Foochow, whose Chinese department is also Institute-subsidized, has been so harried by Japanese bombers that it has been proposed to move it further into the interior. This province is famous in China for the number and quality of its poets and scholars, and the work being carried on in the university by the Chinese scholars has dealt with local history and the ancient civilization of that region. It began the academic year with 169 students...
Between them, three years ago they performed one of the most extraordinary military feats of modern times: the great 2,000 mile retreat of a Communist army-cut off from supplies, living off the country, constantly harassed by the greatly superior forces of Chiang Kai-shek-from Fukien through western China to Shensi Province, where they set up another Communist state...
...lowa; Louis A. Carapella, of Tuckahoe, New York; Quang Tou Chang, of Kiangsu, China; William D. Dickinson, Jr., of Little Rock, Arkansas; Alden P. Edson, of Lawrence, Kansas; Daniel J. Faustman, of Sacramento, California; Charles D. Gates, of Asburnham; Emil C. Jensen, of Burlington, Washington; 1-Lun Liu, of Fukien, China; Clifford M. Mast, of Davenport; Iowa; Iwao Miyake, of Honolulu, Hawait., Charles T. Morrow, of Cloucester...
...twofold: To give instruction in the language, literature and history of China, Japan and contiguous countries, and to carry on research work in China through grants in financial aid to six of the universities which have been established by Americans in that country: Yenching University, Shantung Christian University, Fukien Christian University, West China Union University, Lingnan University and the University of Nanking...
...Chiang Kai-shek's party when 40 members of the Nationalist Central Executive Committee arrived in Nanking last week for their fourth congress. A month ago, with six revolts crackling under him, Chiang looked like a heavy loser. Picking the key revolt, he cracked down hard on the Fukien rebels headed by smart Trinidad-born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced...