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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Chen Yang-piao: "In Fukien if I am not the No. 1 candidate, I surely am the No. 2. Why am I not on the list?" Teng Kung-hsien pounded the speaker's table as though squashing injustice. "We have been on the wrong road! Why belong to the Kuomintang after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Kansas City Touch | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...from liking the movie, the Shanghai barbers roared their indignation. Telegrams of protest from barbers in Hangchow and Hankow flooded in. Some 500 barbers stormed the Shanghai theater, pulled the signs down, smeared the advertisements with paint. "They did this," said the dignified newspaper Ta Kung Pao, "to show their disapproval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Razor's Edge | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...when he discovered the skull of Sinanthropus, the Peking man, who lived half a million years ago. Recently Dr. Pei discovered some Chinese contemporaries known as "The Fire Society." Shocked and angry after a trip to his native village, he wrote about it in Tientsin's Ta Kung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mopping Up the People | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Observing the ancient teaching of Tao [Kan]* Kung, that time is precious, he hereby declines and returns thanks for all invitations to dinner parties in his honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Teaching of Tao Kung | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything for the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Week of the Winds | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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