Word: manchu
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...read the name as "Little Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor instances of his genius was the introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which...
Modest Emperor. The deposed heir to the vanished Manchu Empire of China, a modest youth, Henry P'u-Yi (TIME, March 16, 1925) was interviewed last week for the first time in many months, at his refuge-residence in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin. Said...
Chinese first heard of Wang when he attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent in 1907, and barely escaped abroad with his own life. That attempt stamps Wang as a democrat and a patriot in Chinese eyes...
...tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
...possessed the ambition to make every Chinese man, woman, and child politically conscious. His task was almost inconceivable to the Western mind. China for 2000 years had been steeped in the Confucian doctrine that 'people can be made to follow but not to know why', and during the Manchu dynasty the notice was posted in tea-houses the country over--'Don't talk politics...