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Ching-Chang Hsiao says that he wanted to be a Nieman fellow because "we must get more knowledge about America and about the world. We can't confine ourselves to China or to Shanghai." Certainly, in his own life Hsiao has not confined himself much. After graduating from Nanking University...
Not to mention sexually audacious? by Chinese standards. Last year, according to Chinese press reports, 700 of the 800 pupils at a Shanghai high school enjoyed subscriptions to Story, a tabloid filled with teasing tales of lechery and lust. Feng Bing, 17, a typical teenage inmate in a Shanghai reform...
From dusty Nanking streets, sleek limousines converged on a plain brick residence in the spacious Ministry of National Defense compound. It was Friday afternoon; by 2 o'clock Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's small drawing room was jammed with ranking Kuomintang officials. Tense and silent, they waited.
Clad in a simple khaki uniform without insignia, China's Commander in Chief and President rose to his feet from a sofa in the corner of the room. Slowly, without show of emotion, he made the announcement that all had expected: he would leave Nanking and go to his...
It was a week of stunning, swift disaster in China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. In four days they took...