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Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
Baron Suzuki belongs to a bygone generation of Jap empire-builders. He was an up-&-coming naval officer during Japan's war against China's decadent Manchu Empire (1894-5) and against Russia's hapless Tsarist Navy (1904-5). Before his retirement in 1927, he rose to the Navy's supreme command. Then he joined the inner circle of the Court. As Grand Chamberlain he walked a few respectful paces behind Hirohito at public functions (see cut), helped name the Emperor's first born son. Most important, he served as the door through which...
Donald's career as a powerful oriental factotum began with Sun Yatsen. After his successful revolution had overthrown China's 300-year-old Manchu dynasty in 1911, Dr. Sun needed someone to communicate his ideas, help work out his plans. Donald became his adviser. A newspaperman, he had arrived in China in 1902, via Sydney's Daily Telegraph, to go to work for Hong Kong's China Mail. He was Shanghai correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald when Dr. Sun heard about him. Donald, profoundly moved by the revolution...
...first year of T.V.'s life, his father's great friend, a dour little local doctor named Sun Yatsen, performed a historic act. He sent a petition, as was the right of every queued Manchu subject, to the viceroy of the Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi -to grant China western reforms...
Exile's Education. But the new Republic died practically in its swaddling clothes. Within a year, ambitious Yuan Shih-Kai, a former Manchu general, had taken over. Again Dr. Sun fled abroad. This time the Soongs, who were deeply involved in his political schemes, went with him. For almost two years they lived the life of fugitive revolutionists, under assumed names, in Japan. But even in exile Charlie Soong and his wife never gave up one ambition: a U.S. education for their children...