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...Yale, he went to Europe for the Y.M.C.A. in World War I, was assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken language. Jimmy Yen reduced it to about 1,000 characters, and Basic Chinese was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 300 Million to Go | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...retreating Chinese Communists, leaving behind their legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: End of a Symbol | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...hu, a loose-stringed violin, looks like a cross between a walkie-talkie and a strangler's cord. The performer clutches it in a nursing position, strokes it with a long bow, makes sounds like a violin with loose strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hsi Chu | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...Start. On the morning of Nov. 15 the delegates crowded into the grey stone Assembly building on Kuo Fu Road. The Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang entered almost unnoticed by a side door. But among the drably clad provincials were some colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vital Step | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Lynch me if I'm wrong," Hu Flung declared, but it shouldn't be a bum Setear to say Harvard 10 Yale...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Yale Must Seek New Haven Today, Says Omniscient Sage | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

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