Word: kai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hastily he wrote to thin, nervous President Chiang Kai-Shek, craftily offering to leave China for a period of years-provided that all members of the "Soong Dynasty" resign from their governmental posts and also go into voluntary exile...
Gerson is no great loss to the race. But in the last act, prisoned in the lacquered mansion of the dread Chang Kai Chang, the Hon. Nancy and "Chinese" O'Neill nearly meet their doom. At the last moment the adventurous Celt obtains a Colt, takes a pot shot at the munition-laden ships of Chang Kai Chang?"Master of the China Sea." He does not miss. He embraces the Hon. Nancy during a thunderous holocaust which signals the utter destruction of all their enemies...
These were some of the plans disclosed last week by deep-voiced, horn-bespectacled Henry Killam Murphy, able Manhattan architect, designer of"Yale in China" (Ya-li), Changsha, Hunan; Yenching University, Peking; William ("Billy") Lyon Phelps's residence. New Haven, Conn. Undeterred by wars, far-sighted President Chiang Kai-shek had commissioned Architect Murphy to plan a new city of Nanking, a new capital for the Nationalist government...
...police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north bank of the Yang-tze-kiang, last week, the absconding rebel "Generals" collected a force of uncertain strength on the south bank, to which they had fled, and President Chiang Kai-shek prepared to engage in prolonged dickering and skirmishing. Nonetheless he stood forth, last week, more clearly than ever as the Strong Man of modern China...
...called Wuhan cities are those centering about Hankow, up river on the mighty Yangtze-kiang, while down river is the Chinese capital of Nanking, against the authority of whose President Chiang Kai-shek (see above) the Wuhan cities are in revolt. Military operations last week amounted to little more than the preliminary convergence of three Nanking Nationalist armies upon Hankow, where the Wuhan generals entrenched themselves and strung barbed wire...