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...fang is 32. At the age of seven he had mastered Chinese music, studying with his uncle Yu-ti'en, famed musician and virtuoso on the stringed hu-k'in. When he was twelve, Mei Lan-fang, grandson of a great actor of the '50s, made his own debut as a tan (female impersonator). The impersonation of women is perhaps the greatest branch of Chinese acting, for women are not permitted on the stage.* Mei Lan-fang plays women's rôles entirely. He is president of Peiping's Actors' Association and his superiority in his calling is unquestioned...
...months ago envious rivals declared war on the sedate Governor of Yunnan Province, Hu Jao-yu. Governor Hu lacked troops. Practical, he contracted for aid with a bandit chief well spoken of in the interior, promised him the Prefecture of the City of Megntzu and a camel-load of Mexican silver dollars...
...hindsight he saw that it was not only wrong for him as an official of the Chinese Nationalist Government to have paid a camel-load of silver dollars to a bandit, but also that it would be morally wrong to allow the bandit to continue to exist. Governor Hu firmly resolved to exterminate the fellow...
...high indignation, relatives of the kidnaped élite of Megntzu wired qualm-wracked Governor Hu, blamed him, demanded that he pay the ransom...
...Outrageous!" exclaimed Dr. Hu. "Our judicial system is superior to those existing in Japan and Turkey when the powers allowed those nations to take full jurisdiction over foreigners [respectively in 1899 and 1926]. ... It is unjust and unreasonable for the powers to insist on the retention of extraterritoriality in China on the ground that our laws do not exactly resemble their...