Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek insists that "officially" Chinese Settlement Day, same as Chinese New Year's, is "unofficial." Actually on that day, which falls this year on Feb. 4, every due debt in China must be paid or the debtor irretrievably loses face.
An onlooker hating violence, Yuan plays no vital part in the revolution that brought Chiang Kai-shek to Nanking. Mrs. Buck's faintly archaic Biblical rhythms, so well-adapted to the peasant and patriarchal life of an older China, falter when she tries to suggest the clutter of the...
Two days later the Government proudly opened the first railway ever to pierce remote Shensi Province and connect with the 20th Century world legendary Sian, capital of China during the Ts'in, Han and T'ang dynasties (246 B.C.-907 A.D.). As opened last week the railway is...
The roving armies known interchangeably as Communists or bandits were sweeping all before them last week in Northern Hunan Province in the heart of China. In safe Nanking the Government squeaked a warning to the U. S. Legation to get U. S. citizens out of Hunan. Already a pair of...
Last month Generalissimo Chiang an nounced that he had "broken the backbone of Communism in China" by chasing the Communists out of Kiangsi Province. Nanking authorities added that nearby districts were "safe." Nonetheless, a band of Communists bobbed up at Tsingteh and kidnapped Mr. and Mrs. Stam and Daughter Helen...