Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After attending a village primary school and later a government-run teachers college, he became a smalltown teacher in 1937. Tiring of academic life, Park enrolled in military academies in Manchuria and Tokyo...
...became the first Soviet citizen in two decades to visit Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, secretly, in late 1968. His book, however, is virtually devoid of contemporary sinological research, not to mention eyewitness reporting. Louis draws on czarist-era studies to proclaim that nationalism is flourishing even in Manchuria, though the Manchus have virtually vanished as an identifiable ethnic group, largely because of overwhelming Han Chinese immigration for a century. At one point Louis admits this; at another point he claims, preposterously, that the issue of Manchu nationhood is being debated "heatedly" by scholars. He even concocts a bizarre...
More ominous, they could also threaten Peking's sense of security by moving along the 4,500-mile Soviet-Chinese border, which is bristling with 44 divisions of the Red Army. Soviet troops could strike into the frozen, inhospitable terrain of Sinkiang, but a more likely target is Manchuria, China's industrial heartland. Analysts hopefully discount an air attack on China's nuclear faculty at Lop Nor as a "doomsday" option, one perhaps favored by Moscow's military brass, but not by the Politburo...
...dramatic, often melodramatic, story. Manchester, a meticulous researcher, marshals all the necessary facts with fairness and perception. Unfortunately, he plods heavily, sometimes grotesquely, through his material. "Korea," he writes in one instance, "hangs like a lumpy phallus between the sprawling thighs of Manchuria and the Sea of Japan." Yet American Caesar succeeds despite such lapses. Fourteen years after his death, MacArthur still provides an inexhaustible story of a hero and those who worshiped and reviled...
Then the Coast Guard sent him to Shanghai, where Miller saw a society that was crumbling, in part because of runaway inflation; the rate of price increases that summer of 1946 hit 2,000%.* He also met Ariadna Rogajarski, a White Russian who had been born in Manchuria and had been living in Shanghai under the Japanese occupation. They married, and the young officer-who is still addressed as George by old friends-began calling himself G. William Miller. His bride found Bill much easier to pronounce than George...