Word: hangchow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with 3,000 of his court, into captivity in Mongolia, about 6,500 paintings in the imperial collection dating back over 1,000 years were destroyed or dispersed. But the Sung Dynasty held out in the south for another 150 years-long enough to make their new capital. Hangchow, with its willows and delicately arched bridges, one of the most beautiful cities of antiquity...
...Khan's court, and rose to become his Minister of Justice. Endowed with extraordinary ability as a painter, he first patterned his style on the impressionist manner of Mi, later emulated the landscapes of loth century Painter Tung Yuan, finally retired to savor the intellectual climate of Hangchow. His Mist in Wooded Mountains shows that he could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely his own. The drama is in the landscape itself, in the mountains and solid trees seen emerging through the fog. But 500 years later it was the small, indistinct figures that caught...
Tired, hot and irritable, the pilgrims stopped off for a two-day rest at the ancient beauty spot of Hangchow, where pagodas rim lovely West Lake, in which gold carp come at a visitor's clap. Swimming in a pool in the grounds of a former Buddhist temple, gliding over the lake, the delegation seemed oblivious of the landing craft they had seen assembled along Shanghai's Whangpoo River, and of the Peking radio's loud declaration that China intended to liberate Formosa forthwith-and would "brook no U.S. occupation, no U.N. trusteeship, no neutralization...
...intrigue-the kind of factional squabbling that has been one of the Nationalists' gravest weaknesses. A Whampoa cadet sent by Chiang Kai-shek to study aviation in Moscow in 1927 (before the Nationalists and Communists split), Mao set up his country's first military air academy at Hangchow in 1932, helped Chennault build up the Flying Tigers during the Japanese war, served in the postwar period as chief representative of the Chinese air force abroad. But Mao's pet ambition was thwarted when Chiang made the army's General Chou Chih-jou instead of Mao commander...
...prototype, the Stakhanovite movement, has created a glamorized class of "labor heroes." Among other favors, workers who speed up production get vacations at the best resorts, or trips to Peking. Last week, with a fanfare of propaganda, 70 labor heroes from Shanghai went off to beautiful West Lake at Hangchow, as the Russian speed-up kings were sent off to the sunny Crimea. At West Lake, the Chinese Stakhanovites were lodged in villas that once belonged to wealthy merchants. "These houses," reported one Chinese newspaper, "have stained-glass windows, beds with springs, and silk quilts, tiled bathrooms with flush toilets...