Word: hsiu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hung Hsiu-ch'uan was a kind of Chinese John Brown, a religious zealot who saw his rebellion succeed-for a time. A poor provincial schoolteacher, he rose to lead the Taiping Rebellion, which ravaged China between 1851 and 1864, and cost the lives of an estimated 20 million people. Since Hung was a professing if distinctly unorthodox Christian, who ruled some 30 million subjects at the peak of his power, he has left behind him one of the most tantalizing ifs in history: If he had toppled the Manchu Dynasty and mounted the Dragon Throne, would China...
Divine Trance. Born near Canton, Hung Hsiu-ch'uan ("The Accomplished and Perfected'') at first longed to be a civil servant. Disheartened at flunking exams, and already possessed of fragments of Christianity, he fell ill and went into a 40-day trance. During the trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...
...Awaiting them was a heroes' welcome and the promise of jobs from the Nationalist government. But to the men who had been on the cruise of the Pak Tang, this prospect, while gratifying, was almost unnecessary. "I'm satisfied just being here," said ex-Colonel Yui Teh Hsiu, once the commander of a Nationalist regiment. "We agreed among ourselves that if we failed we would all jump overboard...
...Formosa, the Chinese Nationalist government was reported ready to grant a passport to Wu Hsiu-huang, 16, son of the island's former governor, Dr. K. C. Wu, who now lives in vociferous exile in Evanston, Ill. It was "very good news, indeed" to Dr. Wu, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most bitter non-Communist critics, who recently accused Chiang of trying to silence him by holding young Wu as hostage...
...Chinese instituted a program of civil service examinations in 165 B.C., along the lines of a proposal Confucius had made two centuries before. As finally formalized, the system classed aspiring civil servants into three general types: the hsiu-ts'ai, or "budding genius," who could pass the basic district examination; the chii-jen, or "promoted man," who passed provincewide tests, and the chin-shih, or "achieved scholar," the man who passed an examination at the national capital...