Word: kai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first President of the Chinese Republic was Yuan Shih-Kai, 1913-16; second, Li Yuan-Hung, when he retired on account of a restoration of the Monarchy; third, Peng Kwo-Chang, 1917-18 ; fourth, Hsu Shih-Chang, 1918-22 ; Li Yuan-Hung resumed the Presidency at the request of old Parliamentarians on June 11, 1922 and remained in office until last June...
...Kai Lung, Wandering Philosopher, is Hero in a Minor...
...Story. Kai Lung, wandering philosopher and teller of tales in the days before China was troubled by the ways of Western civilization, fell into converse-and love-in the course of his peregrinations with a pleasant willow-pattern young lady nicknamed the "Golden Mouse"-and in the very same day acquired the undying enmity of the execrable Ming-Shu, chief henchman of the Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when...
...Emperor abdicated and the city was divided by a wall. The Emperor and his family remained north of the wall. The southern half was taken by the first President, Yuan Shai-Kai, who had it renovated for his coronation as first of a new dynasty, which never came...
Meanwhile Tokyo is aroused by loud clashes between the Ken-Sie-Kai party (pro manhood suffrage) and the Taisho Red Heart League (anti). And the people are at odds with the police...