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What should a new-style, progressive Chinese wife do when her husband turns out to be a dreadful reactionary? Mrs. Ling Hua-tang knew: call the cops and let them take care of him as they will. Last week, proud of herself, Mrs. Ling wrote a letter to Canton's official Communist Southern Daily, which printed it as a guide to fellow "progressives...
...Tuesday of this week. At this meeting, the U.N. team will be headed by Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy (see box). The Communist delegation will be composed of three North Koreans, General Nam II, General Chang Pyong San and Major General Lee Sang Cho, and two Chinese, Generals Teng Hua and Hsieh Fang...
China's Red press described the liquidation of one "batch," numbering several hundred. Tien Feng had wrecked locomotive boilers in Peking's railroad shop. Li Chih-hsiang had ruined wind gauges, wind pumps and water pumps. Tung Hua-chang had inspired workers to slow down. Chin Han-kui had fabricated 90 false rumors against the government. On their way to execution, the victims were paraded slowly through Peking's streets to the scenes of their crimes, where death was meted...
Hurrying home, Wang put his best troops, under trusted General Wu Hua-wen, on a line defending the capital's most vital points-the main airfield, the railroad station and the commercial district, all outside the old city wall. Suddenly, on the fourth day of battle, Wu turned traitor, led some 8,000 of his men over into the Communist lines. Tsinan's outer defenses collapsed...
Returning to China, a Peking University professor at 26, Hu started a literary reform that crackled through China like fire through a paper house. Today Pai Hua is used in China's schools, books and some newspapers (though not government documents). All China reveres Hu Shih as the "Young Sage" (the old one: Confucius...