Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Going home for a short visit, she met an Englishman in the Chinese Government Service, had a premonition that he would marry her. He did, and the rest of her book describes chiefly her life in the foreign settlements of Nanking, Canton, Tientsin. All through China's recent troubled...
In 1927 the President turned upon his former Soviet allies and has been trying ever since to stamp Communism out of China. Aside from a brief period of retirement in Japan, Generalissimo Chiang has lived in Nanking (where he recently completed a huge "foreign-style" house), only fleeing from the...
Instead of being called Soviets the various councils which comprise the Nanking Government are called yuans. As in Russia the so-called "President" (Mr. Lin Sen) and so-called "Premier" (Mr. Wang Ching-wei) are of scant importance, effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in...
Though he withholds the provincial revenues from Finance Minister Soong and does about as he pleases, able War Lord Han leaves Shantung's relations with the Great Powers and the League of Nations to Nanking Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan who writes & receives diplomatic notes for all China.
Until the earthquake shook other thoughts from their minds, biggest news of the week to California's unemployed doctors & aviators was Dr. Chung's combined Air & Medical Corps. It was big news to Nanking and Peiping too, where the Corps was expected to bring valuable flyers and doctors...