Word: hao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atmosphere of Chiang Kaishek's sitting room-among the potted plants, old scrolls, Sung urns and leather chairs-the 20-year single-party monopoly of the Kuomintang (National People's Party) was, nominally, coming to an end. The Generalissimo ran his eye over the hand-charactered document. "Hao hao!" he exclaimed, "let us sign and have this copy as a souvenir." Across the agreement for a coalition government, the spokesman for the Young China Party, the Democratic Socialists, and the nonparty independents added their brushstroke signatures to Chiang's own Kuomintang endorsement...
Chiao (clever). "Clever" Chinese are slick at rendering the "outward formal likeness"; they know the "rules." As Old Master Ching Hao put it: "The skillful painter carves out and pieces together scraps of beauty...
...primarily on various Catholic translations in French and English; the unilingual Generalissimo checked against his familiar Protestant versions, indicating his likes & dislikes. Then Wu worked over the passages the Generalissimo did not like, sometimes made three or four tries before it was right. When Editor Chiang nodded and said, "Hao hao (Good good)," Translator Wu knew the team was in agreement...
...Ting Hao...
...Ting hao! Correspondent Gray has done it-at last [TIME, June 10]. We who lived in the backwoods of China (Kunming) during the war were well aware of the situation. The corruption of Kuomintang officials was evident throughout the war years, when Americans at home were waxing sentimental over the gallant Chinese. . . . The bouquets have always belonged to the paddy farmer, the coolie, and the ordinary little soldier whose courage, in the face of the decadent regime under which they were forced to live and fight, was the truly fine thing about the China we knew...