Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appropriately President Chiang was inaugurated, last week, on the day called "Double Ten"?the anniversary of that historic "tenth day of the tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten" was joyously celebrated at the bomb town of Hankow with a splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census...
...known as the wife, and later as the revered widow, of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "sainted" founder of the Nationalist movement. She is now reported married (TIME, Oct. 10) to her late husband's zealous co-worker Chen Yu-jen ("Eugene Chen"), until recently Foreign Minister to the defunct Hankow Nationalist Government (TIME, April...
Last of the Soong sisters is Meiling, Wellesley '15. Like her brother, T. V. Soong, Harvard '15, she has been closely identified with the Hankow Nationalist Government in which he was Finance Minister. In person she is charming, in mentality alert, in speech sometimes caustic. Observers, knowing her passionate Nationalist zeal, wondered if she married Chiang Kaishek, last week, with intent to rouse him from retirement to renewed leadership of a Nationalist military force...
...significant and potentially important event took place last week in China: The two Nationalist governments, which have, since the split* last spring (TIME, March 28) functioned at Hankow and Nanking, united as a single government at Nanking. The new government, which holds sway only in territory to the south of Nanking, is controlled by a commission of five. In addition there are two councils, one on education, the other on military affairs, as well as a cabinet. This new regime marks the beginning of a new future for the Nationalist cause, i. e., the unification of China under a single...
...split occurred soon after General Chiang Kai-Shek captured Shanghai. An attempt was made to wrest power from the victorious general who evaded the move by setting up an independent regime at Nan king and denouncing the government at Hankow as bolshevist...