Word: manchu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Getting In. China's Manchu dynasty began to fear the influence of the foreigners on the shaky empire. Citing the importation of opium as their reason, the Manchus began obstructing trade. Tough Merchant Jardine persuaded Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston to send in the British navy. The Manchus fought back, and the result was the 1839 Opium War, which the British won. They made a treaty by which five Chinese ports (Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai) were thrown open to world trade...
...those welcome in other parts of Red China, are permitted to see Kang's Manchuria,which Peking calls "the Northeast District." But in guarded progress reports, the Communists showed last week how completely the Red future in China hinges on the 443,275-square-mile land of the Manchu, a land nominally Chinese but actually north of the Great Wall and outside of China proper. Examples...
...like Texas' Tom] Connally, dismissed the whole project as "chasing crap-shooters." And many professional crimebusters took a slightly amused view of the committee's melodramatic approach to the Mafia, a scapegoat dear to the hearts of Sunday-supplement writers and students of the devious Dr. Fu Manchu. But no one 'could charge Kefauver with pulling his shots on political grounds: his investigation into the unaccountable wealth of the Democrats' candidate for Cook County sheriff, Police Captain Dan ("Tubbo") Gilbert, unquestionably cost Majority Leader Scott Lucas the election. And by last week, Estes Kefauver...
Philosophy to Leather. For a campus, Yenching bought a summer garden once owned by a Manchu prince. There, among artificial hills and twisting streams, rose bright pagoda-roofed Chinese buildings with classrooms for every subject from philosophy to the manufacture of leather. Harvard, Princeton and Wellesley formed their own Yenching foundations. Money poured in from U.S. philanthropists and Protestant churches...
Baker arrived in Formosa, where TIME and LIFE have the largest circulations of any American magazines, on Double Tenth (October 10), China's Fourth of July, commemorating the end of the Manchu dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese Republic. That afternoon he took in his favorite spectator sport, a baseball game played before some 70,000 Formosan fans, including ex-head-hunting aborigines down from the hills for the occasion...