Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong bamboo lift-poles. There he reads and answers 40-odd telegrams from China sore-spots each day. If there is a big rush on, he helps decode messages. Some errand may take him to the Foreign Minister, less frequently to the Finance Minister, very seldom to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In the evening he occasionally gives a stag dinner (his wife and two children live in Peking), otherwise reads something light and goes to bed-sometimes to be wakened in the middle of the night by an air raid alarm. The Embassy has a stout dugout, but a direct...
...sheep guts, gold, jade, fine horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears' paws). The huge province has never been properly integrated with China, and since about 1930, Russian influence has almost amounted to domination. Since economically Sinkiang is already virtually a Russian province, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, no lover of Communists, may well have seen the sense of making concessions there for the sake of active aid on his own front...
...Ching-wei, who is hourly expected to bob up as head of a super-puppet government in Nanking, broadcast an appeal from Japanese-held Canton. He begged South China to break with the Central Government, make peace (under himself) with Japan. Wang sniped at his old rival Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose tremendous popularity, along with Wang's lack of it, has undoubtedly been the main incentive for the would-be-puppet's campaign. Himself a Cantonese, Wang subtly appealed to his fellow Southerners on the grounds that South China, in olden times, was independent. What took the sting...
...They happened twelve years ago, in March 1927. For anti-foreignism is nothing new in East Asia; what is new is the reason for it. In 1927 China was becoming a unified nation for the first time in its 5,000-year history. A young General named Chiang Kaishek, though still hardly more than an ambitious warlord, was beginning to make his people realize that yellow skin was not necessarily synonymous with low estate. The Russians, to promote world revolution, were also urging a China for Chinese. The country burst into fire from within, like a haystack with...
...missionaries and British diplomats, who received them kindly. They interviewed General von Falkenhausen (Chiang Kai-shek's German adviser at that time), histrionic U.S. Red Writer Agnes Smedley (China Fights Back), who thought they might be fascist plotters because they talked with von Falkenhausen. Madame Chiang Kaishek, with whom the poets took tea, was "for all her artificiality a great heroic figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame and Donald [Chiang's Australian adviser] flying frantically about the country by aeroplane . . . clearing out the drains in one city, buttoning...