Word: manchu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time to Stop." Chou found the currents he wanted to swim with early in his life. Sun Yat-sen's democratic revolution against the crumbling Manchu dynasty was just getting under way when Chou (pronounced Joe) was born into a family of impecunious gentry...
Hughes, and such solid character actors as Peter Gushing (the house Doctor Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes) and Christopher Lee (Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, Fu Manchu...
After Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang revolution finally overthrew the corrupt Manchu empire in 1911, Chiang served as one of Sun's best young officers, then went to Moscow for further training. "I admired in those days the whole revolutionary attitude of the Communists," Chiang said later. "When I arrived in Russia, all my hopes about the revolution were blasted...
Both men were born in China to U.S. missionaries shortly before the 1911 revolution toppled the Manchu dynasty. Both were educated partly in China and spoke the language fluently. By 1944 they were young old China hands stationed in Chiang Kai-shek's wartime refugee capital, Chungking, as political officers on the staff of Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, who was commander of U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. The pair chafed at the frustrating restraints imposed on "Vinegar Joe" by the generalissimo and his Nationalist regime, which they believed was fatally weak...
...possible. Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank suggests that the two governments might one day agree simultaneously to recognize Peking's "sovereignty" over the island and Taipei's "autonomy"-a device the British employed to engineer continued Chinese sovereignty over separatist Mongolia and Tibet after the fall of the Manchu empire...