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Word: hsiao (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anger in Nanking. After Wedemeyer's blast at the Chinese Government (TIME, Sept. 15), many Chinese thought they knew just what to expect. Wrote Fei Hsiao-tung, sociology professor and one of China's sharpest political commentators: "We must not be offended because the U.S. has become indifferent to China. [But] we are worried for the U.S." Reported TIME'S Nanking correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Diplomatic Attitude | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Thus Chen Li-fu came under Chiang's protection in an all-important hsiao relationship. Chen went to Tientsin's Peiyang University (1919-23), diligently studied physics, mathematics, and the Chinese classics. Like many Chinese undergraduates then, he admired the Russian revolution, read Marx and Lenin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chih-k'o on Roller Skates | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Back in China in 1926, Chen had some idea of benefiting mankind by applying Scranton techniques to the coal fields of Shantung. Fate-and hsiao-had more exciting work for him. He again met Chiang Kaishek, now the general of Kuomintang armies driving against the warlords, and Chiang made Chen a political aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chih-k'o on Roller Skates | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Chen Li-fu and his brother had been given charge of the Kuomintang secret police. Loyal to Chiang, as hsiao required, they set up a Kuomintang underground, infiltrated Communist groups. Chen Li-fu traveled with speed and silence over south and central China, met with secret party leaders and hsien magistrates, testing the loyal, liquidating the disloyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chih-k'o on Roller Skates | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Chen encouraged practical subjects (a country at war needs engineers), he cut down on history, economics and politics. His advice to students: study-quietly and make no trouble. Extracurricular activities disappeared, except for Chiang's San Min Chu I Youth Group, a movement for training the young in hsiao and cheng, and in such un-Chinese pastimes as swimming. The Education Ministry started a bureau to "guide the thoughts and control the actions" of students, abroad as well as at home. When criticized for using "thought police," Chen made a distinctly totalitarian reply: "Any Chinese who violates the Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chih-k'o on Roller Skates | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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