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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, a little man tugged delightedly at his large ears-a sign that he was greatly pleased, puzzled or vexed. He was the great Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, the friend of Japan, the implacable foe of Soviet Russia, overlord by right of might throughout all Manchuria. He was pleased because his son, General Chang Hsueh-liang, had just entered Peking at the head of a victorious army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Peking Falls | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Chang. Troops of the Manchurian Super-Tuchun, Chang Tso-lin, which were supposed to have helped the Wu troops attack Peking (TIME, April 12), were either "closing in on the city" (with intent unstated) ; or they were presumably passing the time by looting in the suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Perpetual Flux | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

Chang. Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, "War Lord of Manchuria," summoned his chief henchmen to Mukden early in the week, and caused them to adopt a resolution declaring that the three Manchurian provinces (Shenpking, Holung-kiang and Kirin) no longer recognize the authority of the so-called "Government of China" at Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chang, Feng, Wu | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...officer, one General Chang [not Chang Tso-lin], replied to an insinuation that China is ruining herself by civil wars: "I think your American Revolution was a sort of civil war, wasn't it? But you don't criticise Washington now for ruining his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chang, Feng, Wu | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Chang Avenged. Last week the mills of Chinese poetic justice ground a traitor and his wife exceeding small. The traitor was General Kuo Sung-lien, once the most trusted henchman of the great Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin. Less than a month ago (TIME, Dec. 7) he mutinously turned against Chang and forced him to flee to Mukden, his capital, there to make a last stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Victories | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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