Word: liang
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...cheng (a 16-stringed zither) that he played was as old as China's Great Wall. In Manhattan's China House last week, a Yale student named Liang Tsai-ping played centuries-old music on a ku-cheng that had come down to him through three generations. His selections (from long-forgotten composers)-Flowers on the Variegated Brocade, Winter Birds Sporting over the Stream-were no more difficult to tell apart than Debussy's impressions...
With a faint, abstracted smile, like a man trying to remember his first girl, Liang plucked out clear notes with the fingernails of his right hand; made them whine and sob with his left. Those who gave up listening for familiar chords (and trying to ignore the weird half tones which almost invariably followed) were rewarded with a dreamy sense of Confucius' "peace among the people...
...move to check corruption in handling military supplies, a five-man military tribunal sentenced to death three high officers in the Chungking supply service: Major General Liang Lin (former mayor of Changsha), Major General Huang Yao, Colonel Pao Yunfei. Liang was convicted of "stealing military materials and of squeeze and extortion." Huang was convicted of receiving 4,100,000 Chinese dollars ($205,000 official rate) rake-off in purchasing military supplies. Pao had made 1,400,000 Chinese dollars from a building contract. All three were shot...
...Economic Information to gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
...other high posts were reshuffled: dapper, German-trained Chu Chia-hua became Minister of Education, replacing Kuomintang bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...