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Among the 80,000 ideographs in the Chinese language, none are charged with more meaning for the people of China today than Hsiao Mieh. In the abstract but exact language of ' China, Hsiao Mieh means "deprived of existence . . . done away with . . . otherwise disposed of." In the broader language of humanity, Hsiao Mieh today symbolizes the greatest planned massacre in the history of mankind...
...Troubles in the Heavenly Kingdom, in which a talented performer named Wang Ming-chung played the part of the immortal Monkey King who defeated the gods in a rough-and-tumble battle. Finally came an acrobatic ballet and a short, exotic concert on stage, featuring such instruments as the hsiao (bamboo flute), sheng (a super mouth organ), hsiao-na (a straight wooden bugle with a copper bell) and several small drums. When it was all over and the audience was applauding thunderously, the whole troupe appeared onstage and returned the applause-an innovation of the Communists to show solidarity between...
...Munich candidate from Oxford. His lectures on political theory after World War I prompted one hearer to say: "One had the sense of being present at an occasion." His son Michael, a graduate student in Canberra, Australia, succeeds to the barony created in 1945. The son's wife, Hsiao Li, who served with Red-sympathizing Michael in Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla forces in 1941-45, is the first Chinese woman ever to become a British peeress...
...Hsiao-Li, the wife of a former Harvard lecturer, yesterday became the first Chinese to be given the rank of Lady in the English peerage. Her husband, Michael Lindsay, automatically received the rank of Baron of Birker upon the death of his 72 year old father...
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...