Word: hsueh-liang
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...Oscar and Lucinda. DIED. JAY LIVINGSTON, 86, Oscar-winning composer and lyricist whose collaboration with Ray Evans produced such hits as Silver Bells and Que Sera Sera; in Los Angeles. During their 64-year partnership the duo received seven Academy Award nominations and won three. DIED. CHANG HSUEH-LIANG, 100, onetime Chinese warlord who kidnapped Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Dec. 12, 1936 in Xi'an, forcing him into an alliance with the communists against the invading Japanese; in Honolulu. Chang spent nearly four decades under house arrest in Taiwan (see eulogy). DIED. ANNE RIDLER, 89, fluent...
...CHANG HSUEH-LIANG only once in Taipei, at the home of Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff. At that hour-long meeting, Chang remained silent?and he kept silent until the day he died. The "Young Marshal" remains a tragic and elusive figure in modern Chinese history. Even after he was released from house arrest in Taiwan, Chang declined to write his memoirs. He also disappointed his former comrades when he refused to visit northeast China, where they had established a museum in his honor and maintained his former home. Instead, he spent his time studying the Bible. Chang...
...when the Communist power in China was at the lowest ebb, Chou's smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their...
...Many Chinese, especially northerners, could not accept this apparent detachment in the face of Japan's threat. In December 1936, the Nationalist garrison at Sian, facing Communist guerrilla forces, laid down their arms and refused to fight "fellow Chinese" any longer. Like their commander, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang ("The Young Marshal"), most of them were from Manchuria, and they wanted to fight the Japanese, if anybody. Chiang flew immediately to Sian to investigate...
...Methodist mission school in 1918. At first he was devout, but, says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...