Word: li
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naphin, 32, who was clutching a loaded pistol in his overcoat pocket. Smiling politely, Statesman Matsuoka was whisked from the waterfront to the echoing calm of Fifth. Avenue's swank (but bankrupt) Hotel Pierre. There he sat down under a portrait of China's late great Li Hung-chang and awaited the Press...
Changchun Tomahawking. Dining heavily in the Yueh Hai Chung, Changchun's best Chinese hotel, and guarded by Japanese police, sat wealthy Li Yih-sun, smartest political wire-puller in Manchukuo. famed for pulling Heilungkiang Province out from under Governor Chen Shieh-yuan who was ''kicked upstairs" to the rank of Privy Councilor...
Chen, furious at being cheated of the graft he had expected to get as Governor, got out his short, sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland...
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...boys march north, join in a great battle. Nothing comes of it but corpses. Ko-sen begins to realize that human liberation is more complicated than revolutionary orators would have him think. And Fah-li has been wounded desperately. Ko-sen forsakes the army, goes to nurse his friend in the dreaded white men's hospital. But the white doctor's loving care of dying Fah-li opens Ko-sen's eyes, gives them a new slant on life. Home he goes, begging food & clothing by the way. When he arrives, he is clad in Revolutionary leggings, Christian coat, Temple...