Word: huang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. Khrushchev was accused of openly voicing support for "antiparty elements" in China. Western experts believe the Chinese "elements" Khrushchev was supporting were military men who opposed the growing Sino-Soviet split, most likely former Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai and his Deputy, Huang Ke-cheng. Khrushchev is additionally charged with trying to sell Peking on a "two Chinas" plan as a means of settling Mao's quarrel with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
Harvard students are "decadent, degenerate, and morally corrupt," according to Huang Ch'ang, associate professor of physics, Peking University, who claims to have studied for several years at Harvard during some undisclosed time in the past...
...glassware, of porcelain and jade, and of sculpture. By that year the head of the powerful state of Chin, which ruled in the west, had risen up against his neighbors and conquered the land that has borne the name of his state ever since. The conqueror styled himself Shih Huang-ti, the First Emperor -an appellation that required him to destroy the palaces, monuments and records of all previous emperors. The wholesale destruction had an ironically tonic effect. The Chinese had, as they were always prone to do, fallen victim of their own achievements, and art had become mere imitation...
Died. Wei Li-huang, 64, wily Chinese Nationalist general who, after chopping up the Japanese in World War II and keeping the Communists at bay in the civil war that followed, inexplicably pulled out of a strongly fortified position in Manchuria at a crucial point in the war and went to live quietly in Hong Kong until 1955, when the Communists persuaded him to propagandize for them; of pneumonia; in Peking...