Word: mukden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the years, Chinese students have often led the way for their elders, sounded the bell that called China to reform and revolt. And this time, said Hu, "the response was almost unanimous from all student bodies in every part of China -from Mukden to Canton, from Shanghai and Nanking in the east to Chungking and Chengtu in the west...
...Eccentric as he sometimes appeared, Ward was a cool, competent diplomat. Scholarly and hardworking, he mastered several Chinese and Mongolian dialects in addition to the Russian taught him by his Russian-born mother. Above all, in a series of posts in or on the borders of the Soviet world-Mukden, Tientsin, Moscow, Vladivostok, Teheran-he gathered a specialist's knowledge of two ominously interrelated subjects: China and Communism...
...final, unique chapter in Ward's diplomatic education came in November 1948, when the Chinese Communists captured the Manchurian city of Mukden, where he was consul general. For seven months Ward was kept under house arrest, and Washington heard nothing from him. The State Department, determined at that point not to be beastly to the Chinese Reds, made no protest. Even when Ward and four of his aides were jailed on trumped-up charges (of having beaten up a former Chinese employee of the consulate), it was only after the Scripps-Howard newspapers launched a campaign against passive...
...months (Lieut. Cameron) to 26 months (Colonel Heller), but they were not otherwise physically abused. The food was a Chinese rice diet (with side dishes, said Colonel Heller, that "ranged from seaweed to bird's-nest"), but they did not go hungry. When they were moved from Mukden to Peking, in April, apparently in preparation for their release, there was a great improvement in the way they were treated...
During the civil war against the Reds, Wei was made chief of the anti-Communist campaign in nine Manchurian provinces. At this point something snapped in General Wei's mind. Of his own accord, he abandoned his garrison in hard-pressed Mukden and fled to Canton, under an assumed name, with his second wife. The furious and disillusioned Gimo had him arrested and sent to Nanking to face charges. For a while, Wei dropped out of sight, but after the fall of Nanking in the last days of Chiang's mainland rule, Wei turned up in Hong Kong...