Word: kaies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "observed a schoolboy behaving in an unbecoming manner in the street." Shortly thereafter the Generalissimo founded a New Life Movement to puritanize and clean up the Chinese, to fight superstition, ignorance and corruption, even to curb such Chinese habits as spitting in public. Chiang turned over the actual running of this movement, obviously Christian in its origin, to his Christian wife. Since then Mme Chiang has been advised, in the New Life Movement and in other matters, by a Congregational missionary, Rev. George W. Shepherd of Auburndale, Mass...
...patriot is Iwan, idealistic favorite son of a powerful Shanghai banker. Drawn into a secret group of revolutionary students, he organizes an armed corps among the Shanghai silkworkers, narrowly escapes Chiang Kai-shek's blood purge of the Communists in 1927. His father saves his life by exiling him to Japan...
Since the fall of Hankow and Canton last October, fighting in China has remained desultory. Best reason for this has been that the Japanese military could not decide whether to pursue Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Communist allies into the ragged highlands of southwestern and northwestern China (which foreign observers estimate would require another 500,000 men) or to spread out beyond the roads and rivers and really take over the territory the army has only penetrated...
Unconquered is by the correspondent who was the first to get the full story of Chiang Kai-shek's kidnapping at Sian (First Act in China). He saw the debacle of the 29th Route Army at Peiping, spent nearly a year in Soviet territory. His book gives detailed descriptions of guerrilla fighting and of the Red Army's famed "short attack." Best testimony to the guerrillists' deadly effectiveness are Author Bertram's quotations from the gloomy diaries of the Japanese soldiers who fought them...
...poet of this book's title is D. H. Lawrence. The painters are Knud Merrild and Kai Götzsche, two strapping Danish immigrants who met Lawrence in Taos, N. M. in 1922, lived that winter with him and his wife, Frieda, in a crude ranch shack which they rented to escape Mabel Dodge (Luhan). Among the flood of memoirs-mostly by women-which have appeared since Lawrence's death in 1930, this one comes nearest to giving an objective picture of Lawrence...