Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical of the plain-living, courageous line of U. S. missionaries in China were the John C. Stams. Both children of Protestant churchmen, they looked remarkably alike: serious, firm-jawed young people with tortoise-shell glasses. Married 14 months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a...
Last week Foreign Minister Mussolini ordered the Italian Legation in Nanking raised to the rank of an Embassy, "to make it correspond with the importance of China as a great power and with the importance of the political, economic and cultural relations between Italy and China." Only other Power to...
The Harvard-Yenching Institute was founded in 1928 by a large grant from the estate of Mr. Charles M. Hall, of Niagara Fall, N. Y. Its purpose is twofold: To give instruction in the language, literature and history of China, Japan and contiguous countries, and to carry on research work...
Pondering these elevating precepts of the New Life Movement recently. General Ho Ying-chin, dignified chief of the Government's Military Affairs Commission at Peiping, asked himself what he and other high officers could do for China while simple soldiers were buttoning themselves up. Suddenly General Ho was struck...
Only when the General rose at the Hotel New Yorker to speak in Chinese to a great Chinese Charitable & Benevolent Association banquet, did Tsai reveal the drive, the mighty earnestness and kindling magnetism of the Hero of Shanghai. No representative of China's Government was present. Also pointedly absent was...