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Possibly you would consider the chief engineer as the outstanding man in this case. His name is T. C. Hsi and he claims Massachusetts Institute of Technology as his alma mater. You may remember that this work was financed by the loan of American wheat plus a surtax on the Chinese customs revenue...
Fierce old Tzu Hsi, crafty, foreigner-hating Dowager Empress, used to say that this Lion Dog of China knew regal splendor when Europeans were "still swinging from the trees by their tails." Fanciers now generally agree that the dog probably took on its present aspect in the 7th Century A. D., but Chinese tradition holds that it was the pet of Emperors 4,000 years ago. Ancient carvings, pictures and effigies of a grotesque animal resembling the Pekingese seem to substantiate this belief...
...original palace edition of an anthology of prose from authors of all ages down to the end of the 12th century, compiled for the Emperor K'ang-hsi, is printed on specially treated paper in multiple colors, using black, red, yellow, and green inks to produce a brilliant display. The colors have remained fast to the present day. Many monumental works were produced in the reign K'anghsi, who was a great patron of letters. In the Harvard Chinese library is the original palace edition of a concordance of phrases found in classical, poetical, historical, and philosophical literature, arranged...
...President Hoover received at the White House Dr. Kung Hsiang-hsi, member of the Executive Council of the Chinese National Government. Other callers of the week: Dr. Ernst Benedikt, editor of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, James H. Rand Jr. (Remington Rand Co.), Edmund Ezra Day and Professor John Henry Williams, experts preparing for the World Economic Conference...
Feng has been spending the summer in poor health near the "Sacred Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province. Should those three able heads really get together, Generalissimo Chiang, Marshal Chang Jr. and the so-called Chinese Government at Nanking may expect to be wiped from the map while ancient glory is restored to PEKING...