Word: li
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...translations are too free to be representative of the Chinese poems -- there is hardly any close resemblance between the originals and his renditions in most cases. To illustrate: "The Loyal Wife's Song" of Chang Chi on page 86, which was the poet's letter to governor-general Li Shih Tao in the form of a loyal wife's song refusing his improper invitation to office, was translated by Dr. Hart as follows...
...introductory essays on the spirit, the history, and the technique of Chinese poetry, Dr. Bart committed himself to several errors. Just to point out two: Chu Yuan is not "one of the shadowy personalities that appear often, in the annals of Chinese literature" and his poem Li Sao is not "a rambling poem which seldom makes a strong appeal to the foreign reader." He is the greatest of all Chinese poets by universal consent. Indeed so great is he that he needs not our "weak witness" of his name though very uncertain do we feel about his life and birth...
...Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province was styled the "Chairman" (President) of the new Government but Chinese called him a mere front for Red Eugene Chen...
...with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
Half a million solid gold Russian rubles ($250,000) soothed Viceroy Li's palm before he consented to a means by which Russia might build her imperialistic railway across what was after all part of China. Created was a dummy Russo-Chinese Bank which built the railway chiefly frorn the proceeds of bonds sold to small, thrifty Frenchmen who, 37 years after, are still screaming for their money...