Word: hua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Chang Kuo-hua, the Red Chinese commander in Tibet, the coming of spring promised revenge for the indignities of winter. He was no longer tied down by the bitter weather and snow-clogged roads, forced to submit to the fierce hit-and-run raids of the rebellious Khamba tribesmen (TIME, March 16). Now he got word that 25,000 Khambas were concentrated only 40 miles north of the capital city of Lhasa. The tribesmen were supported by 8,000 Buddhist monks who, after the Reds looted their monasteries, traded prayer wheels for guns...
...Quemoy Island one day last week, the Red artillery barrage from the mainland just five miles away abruptly ended. On deserted Restoration Road in Quemoy City, the uneasy silence was pierced only by the cough of a diesel engine in the offices of the Cheng Ch'i Chung Hua Jih Pao (Righteous China Daily News), the island's only newspaper. All night long the engine had wheezed, supplying erratic power for the lights by which Chinese compositors handset four tabloid-size pages of type. The little engine rested briefly while a workman slipped the power take-off belt...
...Brother, the Rock."A painter who was to have an equally great influence on succeeding generations was Mi Fei, the ideal exponent of the wen-jen hua, or Literary Man's Painting. He was a great art collector, caustic critic, expert on ink-stones and a lover of fantastically eroded rocks (his favorite, placed in his garden, he addressed as "my elder brother"). His calligraphy (see cut) is one of the most famous in Chinese art history, marked by bold, strong characters that broke with the florid, decorative manner of his predecessors. Despite his eccentric habit of dressing...
...bolder style, it is a resounding answer to his critics and a masterpiece of brush technique. ¶ Shen Chou, who inherited the Literary Man's Painting tradition, played the role of rustic philosopher, ignoring the ceremonial elegance of court life. Near the center of the new wen-jen hua movement which he founded, Painter Shen Chou retired to his garden pavilion. He depicted his ideal life in such paintings as Sitting Up at Night, wrote that he had achieved the ideal state with "one flower and one bamboo, one lamp and one small table, books of poems and volumes...
...dangers of the road across Hua Hin's green rice lands is a series of one-lane bridges across irrigation canals. Sweeping down toward one of the bridges, Peurifoy saw a truck approaching from the other side. He had two choices-to speed up and try to slip through ahead of the truck, or to brake hard and hope the truck would, too. Peurifoy hit the brakes -too late. The Thunderbird smashed head-on into the truck. The ambassador and his younger son were killed almost instantly; the other boy was badly injured...