Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chang. Back to Mukden, his capital city in sub-zero Manchuria, the young War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang did not go last week. He has been at Nanking in central China, conferring with another "little general," President Chiang Kaishek.
Following this promise, Minister Johnson has paid frequent visits to Nanking, Shanghai, Hankow. Last week came details to show U. S. citizens to what lengths Minister Johnson has carried his promise.
When General Chiang Kai-shek marched up from Canton through the centre of China four years ago to capture Peking and establish the Nationalist government he led an army plentifully supplied with Soviet arms, Soviet gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget...
"Conditions in China are now safe for a person to tour the country, but I certainly would not advise young students just out of college to go there with the idea of making an easy fortune," declared H. K. Murphy, now official architectural advisor to the Nanking government in China...
In the summer of 1928 Murphy was appointed Architectural Adviser for the National Government, in the task of planning Nanking as the new national capital, and also for the undertaking of designs for a great group of buildings to house the National Government.