Word: kuang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farther along Nankwan a black-gowned merchant, Fan Kuang-kua, and his apple-cheeked wife have a counter full of cigarets, wooden combs, runty potatoes, homespun towels and dust-cloths. Yes, says Fan, the Communists had posted many signs and slogans along this very street. Yes, they had been anti-American-they had said Chiang Kai-shek was trying to sell China to the U.S. What does Fan believe? "I understand little of this," Fan says. "I am just lao pai hsing...
...some reason Tokyo had summoned Okamura from north China, after an upstairs kick for his predecessor, Field Marshal Shunroku Hata. Best guesses why: 1) the advance was now approaching the Kuang-si mountain ranges, where Okamura would feel at home; 2) Hata's campaign, despite its success, was behind schedule...
...Lindbergh), a college president (Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago). Aliens registered too: Chinese with Japanese; Austrians, Spaniards, Arabians, Hindus, Javanese. The draft boards had to have on hand specialists to translate Chinese birthdays like K.S. 23, 1, 16 (16th day, 1st month, 23rd year of the Kuang Hsü period) into the Gregorian equivalent...