Word: honan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promised leader. Worshippers came to see the babe, to touch the sigil. Han called the child the Emperor of Heaven and a cult grew about him called the Heavenly Gates. Today the Emperor of Heaven is two years old. As yet he has done nothing remarkable. But in the Honan province he has many worshippers who are allied in a secret society. And recently Han purchased arms to protect the Heavenly Gates...
...told," cried Feng sarcastically, "that when men in Honan desire to move to the adjoining province of Shensi in search of livelihood, their wives seize their gowns and sob, 'Ai-ya, my loved one, why will you go to that far-away place...
...Tientsin were captured by Feng's troops (TIME, June 18, 25); but last week he ostentatiously eschewed the role of Conqueror. With a gesture that smacked of authentic greatness the Broad Bronzed Marshal left a part of his victorious forces in the field and modestly withdrew to Honan Province, central China...
...week at Tientsin, by enraged surviving relatives of great Yuan Shih-kai (1859-1916). He was the last of the Manchu Viceroys, and became in 1912 the second President of the Chinese Republic. Last week his sons were made irate by reports that Yuan's mighty tomb in Honan, his native province, has recently been looted and denied by the itinerant so-called Christian War Lord, Feng Yu-hsiang, who has now made Honan his base (TIME...
Chinese who cannot but deplore the present political disintegration of their country, wished last week that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will...