Word: manchus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always painted celebrities. She used to paint familiar celebrities; her picture of Mrs. Coolidge hangs in the White House. Recently Mrs. Leonebel Jacobs went to China; last week in Manhattan she exhibited the faces of certain ladies and gentlemen few westerners have looked upon. The deposed Empress of the Manchus looks out under a headdress of cultured, decadent and nameless flowers. Prince Pu, with European hair, has the clear intelligent gaze of a Pekinese. There is Hsuan Tung, a petal-faced youth, the deposed Emperor; others, in stiff silk, noblemen, princes, knights. Mrs. Jacobs, a clever and sophisticated painter, does...
...present Civil War in China is the first example of the genuine article since the expulsion of the Manchus in 1911," stated J. M. Roots '25 in an interview, with a CRIMSON representative yesterday...
...Manchus were not easy to conquer and, on numerous occasions, Dr. Sun was almost caught by Imperialists and had, consequently, to flee the country. Thus it happened that he spent a great part of his time abroad, always, however, working for the overthrow of the Son of Heaven at Peking, always with a price upon his head. At every capital, his opponents sought to assassinate him. At Tokyo, where he established his headquarters next to the Imperial Chinese Embassy, his very footsteps were dogged. At New York, he proved to a number of skeptical Manhattan bankers, with whom...
...parents, and the greater part of his life was spent in China. He spoke all the principal Chinese dialects and wrote the language with great fluency. Formerly, he served as a general in Sun Yat-sen's army and then helped to bring about the fall of the Manchus...
...Young China Party in its ultimately victorious battle against the Emperor. In 1911 the storm of Revolution at last began to discharge its lightning; Dr. Sun hurried to China, became first Provisional President. On Jan. 5, 1912, the Chinese Empire became the Republic of China: the Manchus had been deposed, but the six-year- old boy-Emperor was allowed to keep his title for life and the Government promised to grant him a yearly subsidy for the same period...