Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two of the six Chinese Universities which are part of the Harvard-Yenching Institute have closed their doors because of war-conditions, according to an article in the Christian Science Monitor. They are the University of Nanking and Shantung Christian University.
The University of Nanking had 908 students enrolled at the beginning of its academic year, but was soon forced to suspend work and disband when Japanese troops surrounded the city and commenced bombardment.
When this happened plans for archaeological excavation had to be abandoned and the Institute of Chinese Cultural Studies, subsidized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, moved into the Interior to some unknown place in Anwhol Province. This Nanking Institute had done work in Chinese history and archaeology and had published books...
In Nanking, where outrages by Japanese soldiers had continued for over a month, Third Secretary Allison and Charles Riggs of Nanking University, a U. S. citizen, went out last week with a Chinese woman. Their object was to try to identify Japanese soldiers whom she accused of having raped her...
The Japanese advance which rolled down through Shantung intending to capture Suchow (TIME, Jan. 17) was badly behind schedule last week and Chinese guerilla warfare was getting into its stride, in both north and central China. Large guerilla forces reportedly recaptured Hoh-sien, some 35 miles up the Yangtze from...