Word: hsueh-liang
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...past decade China's most celebrated political prisoner has been Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the "Young Marshal." Son of fabulous "Old Marshal" Chang Tso-lin, who drank tiger blood and warlorded it over Manchuria until his assassination in 1928, the Young Marshal kidnaped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the fantastic Sian incident of 1936. Eventually he freed the Gissimo and surrendered himself, crying: "I, Hsueh-liang, am by nature rude and uncouth. . . . Blushing with shame, I receive from you . . . the punishment I deserve...
...Economic Information to gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
...disrespectful. If you regard me as your prisoner, kill me, but don't subject me to indignities." Chiang was taken to a house under guard. There he furiously reprimanded his captor, Chang Hsueh-liang, the "Young Marshal...
...particular, was that one of the towns the Japanese advance rolled past was Fenghua, the "Gissimo's" birthplace. The Gissimo is sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since his mother is buried there...
...twisted Goldwyn tongue: that verbal promises are seldom worth the paper they are written on. Retired Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks toyed with the idea three years ago, then passed it along to Producer Goldwyn. First loud stunt of the Goldwyn staff was to trumpet an invitation to young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, kidnapper of Chiang Kaishek, to lead Kublai Khan's cohorts. When Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back from Paramount to play Marco, Paramount helpfully hollered bloody murder, sued unsuccessfully for $5,000,000. When...