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...post, deputy commander of all Chinese ground forces, the Generalissimo named Lieut. General Sun Li-jen, trained at George Marshall's own Virginia Military Institute, in the class of '27. General Sun was well thought of by U.S. officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: All-Out | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...making an earnest effort to improve the situation in Shanghai. Wu's program to cut rice prices this week brought the price down in two days from 60,000 to 51,000 dollars a picul at week's end, and resulted in the arrest of" Jen Hsin-ya, section chief of the Shanghai Food Commissioner's Office, on charges of irregularities in the discharge of his duties as administrator of the billion-(Chinese) dollar Government rice loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bad Government | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...Communists and fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner, had police arrest him, testified against him in court, had him shot. Friend and foe said of Tai: "Sha jen pu cha yen citing-He can kill a man without blinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Generalissimo's Man | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Continuation of Politics. Said Chungking's No. 2 ranking officer in North China, General Li Tsung-jen: "There may be a small war now in China, but major differences can be decided by negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Battle Joined | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...jen loo mung. American visitors to the Espey home usually called spindly-legged little John Espey "Toothpicks" or "Droopy Drawers." But to the Chinese servants he was "the only son of an only son, first cousin to the President of the U.S. ... a nephew of the King of England, and [owner of] the tongue of a five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety ranked second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Childhood in China | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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