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...deepest conflict between the U.S. and Japan, though, was over the future of China, which had been in turmoil ever since the collapse of the Manchu Empire in 1911. Though Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek claimed that his Canton- based Kuomintang represented the entire republic, local warlords ruled much of the country, notably the huge northern territory of Manchuria. The Japanese, who had blocked a number of Russian incursions into Manchuria, were moving in to gain control of the region's plentiful coal and iron, which Japan sorely lacked...
Nationalist President Chiang Kai-shek, a convert to the Methodist Church, and his Wellesley College-educated wife naturally became the symbols of China in American eyes during World War II, along with the sturdy peasants depicted in the novels of Pearl Buck. The U.S. armed and supported Chiang as an important ally in the struggle against Japan. Washington was wrong again: Chiang spent more energy attacking Mao Zedong's communists than trying to repel the Japanese invaders...
...would be hard to find a more all-American story than Lee's delightful China Boy, a semiautobiographical novel based on the author's childhood. Kai Ting, the title character, is the pampered youngest child and only son of a % once wealthy family that fled China following the Communist takeover and settled in a poor -- and predominantly black -- neighborhood in San Francisco. When Kai's mother dies, his father brings home a white wife. She institutes a harsh Americanization campaign that bans all Chinese food, language and customs from the house and abandons her stepson to regular beatings...
SCORING: PlayerGMS G A PTS Robin Johnston 14 7 1 15 Tracy Hackeling 14 2 4 8 Tory Fair 14 2 2 6 Ann Kletz 14 1 1 3 Andrea Montalbano 14 1 0 2 Kai Morioka 10 1 0 2 Erin Matias 13 1 0 2 Sharon Olken 13 1 0 2 Jenny Wink 10 1 0 2 Jen Gifford 4 0 1 1 Chris Biggs 14 0 1 1 Tara Weinstock 14 0 1 1 Sue Caris 10 0 1 1 Kristy Gaschler 5 0 1 1 Laurie Hauber 14 0 0 0 Amy Weinstein...
...children -- learned they had risked their lives for nothing. Awakened at 3 a.m. at the Phoenix House refugee detention center in Kowloon, they were asked to gather their belongings, then herded into trucks by government personnel, some equipped with batons and shields. From there they were taken to Kai Tak Airport and put aboard a jet. Destination: Hanoi...