Word: kiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kiang, Dawson of 1624 South Wilton Place, Los Angeles; Los Angeles High...
Despite this friendly admonition from K. P. Chen, Shanghai banker and nonpartisan State Councillor, and similar advice from other well-informed Chinese, Time Inc.'s Nanking correspondent, Frederick Gruin, went (by air, truck and afoot) to China's huge, little-known, mineral-and-oil-rich Sin kiang province on the borders of Outer Mongolia and, with luck, came back with his story. Those of you who read TIME'S account of it in the October 6 issue know that the story turned out to be another important piece in the pattern of Soviet encirclement of China...
There has also been trouble at Peita-shan, a mud-garrison hamlet on the Peita-shan range two days' drive from Sin-kiang's dingy little capital, Tihua. Last June, Outer Mongolian cavalrymen, backed by five Russian planes, demanded that the Chinese surrender the position. The Chinese held on despite some bombing attacks. They are still there, holding the Peitashan heights. Through field glasses, the Chinese can watch Mongolian patrols on the north side of the range...
...Francisco last week Gump's, the art dealers who sold the seal to Seattle's Museum in 1935, had forgotten where they acquired it. But if it is truly the lost seal (as Chinese Consul Kiang Yi-seng and the Museum's Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches...
Fantastic carvings and the Oriental grandeur of its appearance contrast with the simplicity of the Colonial red brick by which it is surrounded on all sides, and add a touch of Kiang Province, home of the monument for over a century, to the otherwise austere College Yard. Situated just west of Widener Library, about midway down the length of the building, the white marble structure is well preserved despite...