Word: hsiang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government fear him. Cultured Chinese statesmen, most of them proud of their foreign university degrees, call him a bumpkin and a clown. Perhaps no Chinese love him except the coarse, humble masses from which he sprang. Last week these chuckled as tall, mighty-bellied War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang returned with a broad, triumphal grin from his three-month military escapade in Chahar Province north of Peiping which nearly plunged Japan and China into fresh war (TIME, June...
...battling for China's independence against Japanese invaders!" read armbands recently stitched on the sleeves of soldiers commanded by China's Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang who promptly received cash contributions from numerous Chinese patriots (TIME, July 31) Last week, without having fought so much as a skirmish since the stitching Marshal Feng thriftily pocketed all cash received, prudently announced, "I am going into retirement." He thus greatly relieved China's Nanking Government which feared to see its de facto peace with Japan broken by Feng or any other Chinese war lord whom the Japanese would...
...summer on the wide grasslands of Xanadu or Shangtu a few hundred miles north of Peking, which he enlarged and made his Capital. Last week this same region of "Xanadu" was news again. Its trading post Dolonnor ("Seven Lakes") had been captured by the "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July 24). Last week the great voice of War Lord Feng rumbled out of his barrel chest: "I command 100,000 soldiers! So long as there is one breath in my body I will lead these hungry soldiers to recapture Manchuria and Jehol from Japan...
...Army from its trek north to take over the war against Japan. At the same time Cantonese General Chen Chi-tang accepted a long-standing order from Chiang Kai-shek to suppress bandits in five southeastern provinces. Canton also withdrew its support of ''Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, strutting in Chahar Province. And last week 47 Chinese Generals signed a circular telegram supporting the truce and repudiating General Feng...
...Jones the final battle in China would be between Christianity and Communism- "and not only in China but throughout the world." Whether Christianity as preached in China has enough social content to beat Communism remains to be seen. Certainly it is less imperialistic than before. General Feng Yu-hsiang wavered in his Christian faith when a missionary defended the shooting of Chinese students by foreigners. "But," says Dr. Jones, "he is climbing back to a living faith and will be stronger when he emerges again, I believe...