Word: liang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then four companies of Japanese attacked nearby Chinese barracks housing some 10,000 troops. The Chinese, who had orders from Young Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang not to resist, retired. Other Jap companies marched into Mukden, three miles down the line. By morning they were in full possession and had started to persuade the world that China was a synonym for chaos and the setting up of puppet "Manchukuo" a regrettable necessity. It was Sept...
...disrespectful. If you regard me as your prisoner, kill me, but don't subject me to indignities." Chiang was taken to a house under guard. There he furiously reprimanded his captor, Chang Hsueh-liang, the "Young Marshal...
...fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord of Manchuria. 4) to the position of No. 1 cinestar in China, 5) to Episcopalian marriage to wealthy Christian Vintner Eugene Penn of Shanghai...
Chee Lai (Paul Robeson, Liu Liang-Mo and chorus; Keynote). Songs of Free China, in English and Chinese, including Song of the Guerrillas (Go to the rear of the enemy and kick them in the pants}. Although not tuneful to Western ears, the songs are interesting and authentic examples of China's new mass music. China Aid Council (member of United China Relief) gets part of the proceeds...
...largely coaxed the Chinese into mass song is now in the U.S. A small, lean-faced Y.M.C.A. man named Liu Liang-mo, he is studying at the University of Pennsylvania and Crozer Theological Seminary. At the University of Shanghai, cheerleading at basketball games convinced him that mass singing was a morale build er. In 1935 Mr. Liu, by then a Y.M.C.A. secretary, formed a chorus of 60 poor Chinese, taught them to sing Save, Save, Save China to the tune of another round, Row, Row, Row Your Boat. The Y.M.C.A. sent Mr. Liu throughout China, and finally the Government adopted...