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...fortnight ago, at Yenan, Nationalist General Hu Tsung-nan decided to beat the Communists to the punch. Two army divisions, under Generals Liu Kan and Yen Ming, marched south. West of Ichuan they met the Red force. Six hours later the Nationalists had suffered 20,000 casualties. Only 2,000 soldiers escaped. Both General Liu and General Yen lay dead...
Paris' Raymond Duncan, exoatriate brother of Dancer Isadora, headed for San Francisco on his first visit to hu old home town in 38 years, stopped off en route at Los Angeles, in flowing Grecian robes, sandals, long hair and all, and explained his philosophy of actionalism: "I'm not teaching-I'm living a philosophy. I'm like a rabbit on a vivisection table: I'm living...
...There Hu studied farming, switched to philosophy when told that he had to memorize the names of 300 varieties of apples. Later he took his doctor's degree at Columbia under John Dewey, who called Hu the keenest mind he had ever met on Morningside Heights. Hu dated a Chinese Vassar girl, but married the village girl to whom his family had engaged him in childhood. Ambassador Hu's wife, too shy and unconfident to come to the U.S., stayed behind in Peking. When the Japanese came, she rescued at great peril what she knew was most precious...
This week, as the Young Sage turned 56, educators in China's 148 universities, colleges and technical schools debated Hu's controversial new "ten-year plan" for Chinese higher education...
...razor's edge. Inflation has reduced professors' salaries to $30 (U.S.) a month. The typical student diet: wo ton (millet, cornmeal and water). Laboratories and libraries have never recovered from Japanese ravages; for one history class, Peking has only three textbooks. For the next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five (or at most ten) select universities. To presidents of the 138 lesser colleges, Hu's plan looks like merger or death. It has already been opposed by officials of Chiang Kai-shek's Ministry...