Word: manchu
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...familiar-looking figure with the Fu Manchu mustache walked into a television studio in Manhattan. Someone handed him a Schick electric razor, lights blazed, and the director cued ACTION. Three minutes later, New York Jet Quarterback Joe Namath, 25, was barefaced, having whizzed off a two-month growth for a TV commercial. Word is that Joe got $10,000 to part with his shrubbery, which would make it $16.67 for each of the approximately 600 hairs that hit the studio floor. And that isn't all. "I can scramble better now," said Namath. "I'm a little lighter...
...plot unreels like something left over from an ancient Fu Manchu serial. Together with a friend, Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), Millie wanders dizzily around town, avoiding the clutches of a wicked witch of a whiteslaver (Beatrice Lillie) and her gang of scrutable Orientals. In the last reel, both girls foil the villains and tie up their happiness with big pink beaux (James Fox and John Gavin...
There is a widespread belief in China that a national government is not only unnecessary, but all bad. After the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1908, Sun Yat-sen and Generals Wu Pei-fu and Chiang Kai-shek all tried to unify the country, but failed because the city fathers wouldn't cooperate...
...cities of China have been traditionally governed by boards of elders, mainly local merchants. Emperors Genghis and Kublai Khan, and those of the late Manchu dynasty, accepted the system and financed their activities by levying tribute on the cities according to size...
...know and do everything, they were unable and unwilling to cope with modern knowledge. Suddenly, the old formulas no longer worked. Numbers, concepts, labels could not prevail against modern guns and machines. So long unshaken in its sense of superiority, China in the last years of the Manchu rule suffered military defeat and economic exploitation. A social order based on harmony with nature was shattered by the West's promethean energy. Suddenly, it was devastatingly clear that the Middle Kingdom was not really at the center of the universe...