Word: hua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says the pamphlet: "The Tsing Hua University in Peiping ... is used by the Japanese mainly as a hospital for their wounded soldiers. The auditorium ... is being used as a meeting place for the troops. . . . The eastern half of the biological laboratory is a stable, while the classroom attached to it is a bar. . . . The new southern residential quarters have become Japanese brothels...
...along. It boasted at first of 52,000 Japanese casualties. Later the military spokesman pared this to 30,000 casualties. At the front, the tough men of battle told correspondents they had nicked the enemy for only 21,000. Among themselves, Chinese had learned to discount their press ta hua-big talk. They did not realize that Americans, unused to Chinese newspaper ways, were accepting Chungking statements at face value, that editorialists were using every sliver of American bright news from the dark Orient as an editorial springboard...
Typical is Hua Chung College. Japanese air raids drove it from its campus at Wuchang. Japanese planes later bombed it out of Kweilin. Salvaging what equipment they could, Hua Chung's students and faculty trekked over 800 miles west to remote Yunnan Province...
...Hua Chung's resourceful Physicist David Hsiung set up the only power plant within hundreds of miles by coaxing the engine of an old Studebaker bus to burn charcoal, a Diesel engine to run on walnut oil. The biology department began crossbreeding different varieties of Yunnan ducks to get a new, improved strain. While the college faculty was considering the best way to spread the Christian message in Hsichow (no missionary had ever worked there), a student quite independently set the ball rolling by converting two local schoolteachers. Hua Chung had no caps & gowns for its graduating class last...
...Cheeloo, Fukien Christian, Ginling, Hangchow Christian, Hua Chung, Hwa Nan, Lingan, Nanking, St. John's, Shanghai, Soochow, West China Union, Yenching...