Word: jangly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago in San Francisco a 63-year-old Chinese matriarch named Sin-shee Jang decided to spend her declining years in the village of her ancestors, a hamlet named Kutow in Kwangtung Province. Sin-shee Jang was an old-country woman: her feet had been bound, and she liked the quiet scenes of her girlhood. Furthermore, in Kutow she owned a 14-room brick house and was a woman of wealth and importance. She bade her five Americanized sons goodbye, and sailed for home...
...went well with her for a while-even after the Communists took over the village. But in October she wrote her oldest son, Joe Lum Jang, a San Francisco apartment operator, a frightened letter. She had been arrested by the Communists for the peculiar crime of "mistreating her daughter-in-law." They attempted to make her "confess" by torture, but she refused. Then her face was daubed with paint-the mark of an "unlawful woman"-and she was forced to stand before the village courthouse without food or water. After a day and a night she broke down and paid...
Chains. Joe Jang had been expecting to hear something of the sort ever since Chinese Reds had begun extorting money from Chinese in the U.S. Even so, it was "a terrible jolt." His mother's letter did not include a secret symbol used by members of the Jang family if they urgently needed money. But last month a cable from a China-side cousin named Chang arrived in San Francisco. It read: "Your mother asked you cable remittance urgent needed Hong Kong dollars...
...Hong Kong dollars. All had refused to pay, had been forced to kneel on the links of chains, with other heavy chains around their necks, and had then been denied food & water. In the end, all had confessed. One had been publicly executed but, pending payment, Sin-shee Jang was being forced to wear a sign reading "Landlord" and to walk miles each day on her bound feet...
While New Delhi spoke, Nepal's Prime Minister Maharaja Mohun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 64, a devout feudalist,*was journeying from the little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed...