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Revolutionary soldiers drag their commander, Li Yuan-hung out from under his wife's bed. The year is 1911. Li protests. He is loyal to the Manchu Emperor. No! He will not lead the soldiers as a unit in the great revolution!! But then, on second thought, he does...
...sped like wasps, last week, to buzz in a secluded and exotic Chinese garden in the village of Tongka, not far from Canton. The lord of the garden and of the village-a model village-is the venerable Tang Shao-yi, perhaps the last great statesman of the fallen Manchu Regime to survive in dignity and honor. Round his placid head the nasty rumors and insinuations buzzed. Soon...
...North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang Shao-yi was sent to Washington as special Ambassador of the Manchu Emperor. Later he served as Prime Minister of the Government at Peking and as Minister of Finance under the Cantonese Government. He saw his son-in-law, Dr. Wellington Koo, Ambassador at Washington; and today that post is held by his nephew-in-law, Dr. Alfred...
...equivalent of two million dollars gold was subscribed to a "vengeance fund," last week at Tientsin, by enraged surviving relatives of great Yuan Shih-kai (1859-1916). He was the last of the Manchu Viceroys, and became in 1912 the second President of the Chinese Republic. Last week his sons were made irate by reports that Yuan's mighty tomb in Honan, his native province, has recently been looted and denied by the itinerant so-called Christian War Lord, Feng Yu-hsiang, who has now made Honan his base (TIME...
...millions of dollars are being sought* as a first contribution to appease the Chinese dragon, Famine, now stalking in Shantung and Chihli provinces (TIME, Jan. 23). Up to the fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911, Chinese scholars had kept count of 1,828 rampages by the Famine Dragon since 108 B.C. in one province or another?an average of close to one famine per year. Amid the Chinese chaos since 1911 conditions operating to produce mass starvation have grown steadily worse. Doubtless, well fed U. S. citizens will again contribute toward filling empty Chinese stomachs; but the time draws...