Word: hsin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making an earnest effort to improve the situation in Shanghai. Wu's program to cut rice prices this week brought the price down in two days from 60,000 to 51,000 dollars a picul at week's end, and resulted in the arrest of" Jen Hsin-ya, section chief of the Shanghai Food Commissioner's Office, on charges of irregularities in the discharge of his duties as administrator of the billion-(Chinese) dollar Government rice loan...
...beautiful and sweet girl who has good handwriting." Her name is Miss Chow. She writes poems and so does Chang. A sample of his verse, smuggled out to a Communist publication, was reprinted at week's end in Banker H. H. Kung's conservative Shih Shih Hsin...
Invitation to Leave. At 5 p.m. that day Mayor Yung gave a banquet for Russians and Chinese. Many toasts were drunk; but a ghost sat at the groaning board. The Russians complained that the Chinese made many "transparent allusions" to the murder of Chinese Engineer Chang Hsin-fu, killed near Fushun last January. The Chinese believe the Russians were responsible. The Russians believe that Chinese Communists were guilty. Reported Chneider: "The Chinese kept telling us that they would guarantee our safety to Mukden, and then the Chinese would remind us that the Red Army gave the same pledge to their...
Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
...more energetic foreign policy, with special emphasis on improving relations with Soviet Russia. (Chungking made a gesture in this direction last month when Sinkiang's anti-Soviet governor Shen Shihtsai was replaced by General Wu Chung-hsin, an expert conciliator. His nickname: Ho-shih-laoor"Old-Man-Smooth-lt-Over...