Word: hsieh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called "Happiness Gardens," above the confluence of the Kialing and the Yangtze. Into the living room, deeply carpeted and warmed against the damp Szechwan winter by a charcoal-burning fireplace, came leaders of China to pay their respects, to present gift scrolls, and to argue their cases before Ma Hsieh-erh, as "Marshall" is transliterated into Chinese...
They looked good to his father, who packed Dong off to Hong Kong's Lingnan Academy to learn about art. The headmaster, who had studied in Paris, took Dong under his wide-sleeved wing, taught him both Oriental Hsieh-yi ("to draw a conception") and occidental Hsieh-cheng ("to draw reality"). Dong inclined toward Hsieh-cheng...
Every U.S. soldier was mobbed by Chinese, by more hands than any G.I. could shake, more gifts of.cigarets than he could smoke, by boundless gratitude in cries of "To hsieh, to hsieh-Thank you, thank you very much!" and "Mei-kuo ting hao -America is swell!" One celebrant was asked: "Where will you be in a month?" He answered for China: "Not Chungking, not much. Nanking! Nanking! Nanking...
Approval of this procedure came from such airmen as China's dapper Major General Shen Teh-hsieh, commander of Chinese "Thunderbirds" now training in Arizona. He also reported that, in order to bomb Japan and nearby shipping lanes, China now had the airfields, ground crews and pilots, needed only planes...