Word: kaies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money remained last week the chief weapon in China's civil war (TIME, May 19). President Chiang Kai-shek announced that one of his major foes, famed Christian Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, had offered to sell out and change sides for $3,000,000 Chinese silver dollars or $810,000 U. S. gold dollars. This may or may not have been true but it was significant. It lent special and peculiar point to the opening at Shanghai last week of "the greatest mint in the world...
President Chiang Kai-shek, the greatest soldier South China has produced in modern times, once conquered all China (TIME, June 25, 1928), but is today president in fact of only an ill-defined area in central China with its capital at Nanking...
...Nanking ("Southern Capital"), where the Nationalist Government which purports to rule all China is established (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), slender, shrill President Chiang Kai-shek insisted that Peking's real name is the one he gave it two years ago, "Peiping," which means "Northern Peace...
...unlike Ernest Bramah's tales of Kai Lung, in its lacquered language of excessive pseudo-Oriental politeness, unlike them in the faintly lickerish tinge of the narrative, Petal-of-the-Rose gives about as realistic a picture of China as a musi-comedy does of life, affords much the same kind of titillating entertainment...
Other members of the Faculty who will be absent are: R. L. Hawkins '03, associate professor of French; W. C. Ford lecturer on Historical manuscripts; Daniel Sargent '12, instructor in history and literature; L. S. Mayo '10 Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Alfred Kai-Ming Chiu, instructor in the Chinese language and literature; W. L. Langer '15, assistant professor of history; and Dr. A. C. Redfield '13 assistant professor of Physiology...