Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Nanking ("Southern Capital"), where the Nationalist Government which purports to rule all China is established (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), slender, shrill President Chiang Kai-shek insisted that Peking's real name is the one he gave it two years ago, "Peiping," which means "Northern Peace."
After ill-fated attempts to imitate first the Western parliamentary and then the Communist systems, the present Nanking leaders are in possession of an ideology more adaptable to the needs of the country and which gives promise of making its exponents the agents of the restoration of order and unity...
Possibly the trouble is that His Holiness has not scrupulously paid the 10,000 rupees annual tribute he must pay the Mahara-jadhiraya of Nepal according to a still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus...
Having resonantly declared his independence of the Nationalist Government fortnight ago (TIME, April 14). General Yen Hsi-shan, "Model Governor" of Shansi, moved rapidly last week, seized the entire customs receipts of the city of Tientsin, with the exception of the 5% assigned the city by the Nanking Government for...
Despite Governor Yen, the word "Nationalist" has come to sound in Chinese ears with something of the comfortable air of establishment which Vermonters give to "Republican." To make his cause still more respectable Governor Yen announced last week that he had assumed the rank of "Commander in Chief of the...