Word: hao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is much more than a catalogue of sights & sounds, or a stylistic appreciation of scenery. There are also a dirgelike visit to Changsha battle field; illuminating talks with Dr. Sun Fo, "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, WPBoss Wong Wen-hao; ferryboat rides across the dragonlike Yangtze; discourses on the world and its state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill...
...Hao Hao!" At the temporary capital in Chungking the Generalissimo whirled through a week of high statesmanship. In a brief ceremony at the National Government building, he signed the United Nations Charter. When he put down his brush, he made his characteristic short, quick bow, murmured: "Hao hao, hao hao-very good, very good!" He looked deeply satisfied...
Every U.S. soldier was mobbed by Chinese, by more hands than any G.I. could shake, more gifts of.cigarets than he could smoke, by boundless gratitude in cries of "To hsieh, to hsieh-Thank you, thank you very much!" and "Mei-kuo ting hao -America is swell!" One celebrant was asked: "Where will you be in a month?" He answered for China: "Not Chungking, not much. Nanking! Nanking! Nanking...
...since last December has been Acting Premier. Simultaneously, another brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, also resigned as Vice President of the Executive Yuan. For some time, Kung has been seriously ill with kidney trouble, in the U.S. To succeed Kung, the Generalissimo appointed scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, boss of China's WPB. Dr. Kung retained his post as the Generalissimo's personal representative to the President of the United States. Chiang Kaishek, his position buttressed by two popular appointments, remained as head of the Government...
...Americans and Chinese determined what could be brought in by air over the Hump,* what by trucks over the Stilwell Road, what could be expected from Chinese war production, now rising smartly under U.S. guidance and the able direction of China's scholarly WPBoss Dr. Wong Wen-hao. Proper supplies were then carefully pumped out to field units. For the first time, China's armies were adequately fed, paid in hard cash, given ammunition and guns in a steady flow...