Word: manchuria
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...only leader of modern China who has inherited his authority is the well-meaning, hollow-eyed young man known throughout China as "The Young Mar-shal," Chang Hsueh-liang. He is the deposed warlord of Manchuria and, until last week, ruler of Peiping and the surrounding province. Last week destiny caught up with him and with the rest of China. Chang Hsueh-liang is the son of Chang Tso-lin, one of the most picturesque Chinese characters to emerge since the death of that grand old lady, the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi. Chang Tso-lin was a bandit who made...
...commercial supremacy of Shanghai, Peiping still looks like the capital of China. It is one of the tourist centres of the world-more so than ever now that the vast, incredible Forbidden City with its acres of palaces beneath acres of yellow tile roofs has been opened to visitors. Manchuria may go to Japan, Canton and the south may secede, Outer Mongolia may be quietly absorbed by Russia, but so long as the central Nanking government has a semblance of control over Peiping they can claim with justice to be the government of China...
...this offer: 1) the new lord of Peiping can expect no subsidy from the Nationalist government; 2) he will be expected to take the blame for the apathetic Manchurian and Japanese policy which Chiang Kai-shek intends to pursue. Yakamashii. The Young Marshal's inherited province of Manchuria was definitely lost to him last week. At a dinner in New York for the Council on Foreign Relations U. S. Secretary of State Stimson had said...
...little paragraph in U. S. newspapers last week was as significant to students of China as anything that has happened in Manchuria or Shanghai: the 30th and 31st Divisions of Marshal Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist Army were defeated by Communist troops in upper Yangtze Valley and prudently deserted to the Communist side...
...committees, one political, one financial. It was a move that Peiping observers have been expecting for nearly two years. Well meaning, sickly, dope-taking Young Chang had never the influence or the ability of his sly father, the late great Chang Tso-lin. Japan's occupation of Manchuria has ruined him financially, disgraced him as a soldier, emasculated his ragged army. What the final result of these two resignations will be few dared guess last week. It was obvious that the strange sort of equilibrium by which the Nationalist Government has remained in power for the past four years...