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Unsurpassed Prosperity. No such education was needed for the seven employees of Chang Kuo-liang, known for years in Shanghai as the Lungyen King. At his Unsurpassed Prosperity Shop at the corner of Canton and Fukien Roads, Chang had long sold the best dragon's-eyes or lungyen nuts (something like lichees) in the city, together with two patent medicines of his own invention: Ginseng Lung-yen Tonic Syrup and another lungyen tonic for menstrual troubles. Through wars, revolutions and even the Japanese occupation, Chang had prospered, planting his profits in Shanghai real estate and running his business...
...Chungkong, a mass trial attended by 370,000 was highlighted by a young girl student, Chen Kuo-tseng, who denounced her mother. "Secret agents are not human," cried the daughter. "I do not recognize this woman, a special agent who has sabotaged our student patriotic movements, as my mother. I ask the government to execute her, so that she will no longer be a menace to the people...
...Bamboo Curtain fell harshly last week on a century of American good works in China. Red China's Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council Kuo Mojo charged: ". . . American imperialism has, over a long period, placed special emphasis on ... cultural aggression in China...
...Kuo recommended, and the Peking regime approved: 1) a ban on U.S. subsidies for China schools and churches, 2) a takeover by the Red state or by puppet "people's" enterprises of all U.S.-subsidized educational, medical and relief institutions, 3) a transfer of U.S.-subsidized "religious bodies" to the control of "Chinese believers [whom] the government should encourage to become independent, self-sufficient and self-preaching...
...Kuo reckoned that the properties involved had been worth $41,900,000. Among the chief "cultural aggressors": the twelve Protestant "Christian Colleges," run by the United Board for Christian Colleges in China; the Peiping Union Medical College and Changsha's "Yale in China," which were beacon lights of modern medicine in China; and the Catholic schools and mission churches that have served 3,500,000 Chinese Catholics. U.S. religious bodies had supported and operated 504 hospitals, 905 dispensaries, 31 leprosariums, 40 nursing schools, 320 orphanages. Their mission schools had trained scores of thousands of Chinese, including many officials...