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MY last week in Shanghai in May of 1949 was spent watching the city go through its final agonies before Mao's forces swept in. A public execution of six black-marketeers, scapegoats of the collapsing economy, was held at the railroad station. To cover it, I had to...
People's Park. Now we were moving down Nanking Road again. The city's main thoroughfare, once full of rickshas and pedicabs, was empty except for some blue-clad bicyclists. The once glittering shopwindows were covered over by giant red billboards: LONG LIVE THE GREAT UNITY OF THE...
After college in the U.S., Pearl returned to China and marriage with John Lossing Buck, an "agricultural missionary." Said Pearl later: "I married a handsome face, and did you ever try to live just with a handsome face?" She tried for 18 years, during which she and her family withstood...
IN A CONFERENCE room at Nanking University we were seated around a long table. Two girl students placed before us mugs of hot tea. It was late November, 1972. Windows wide open. No heat yet in the University buildings. The hardy Chinese seemed not to need it, But we Americans...
Nanking University, we learned founded in 1902 as a teachers' college, was a stronghold of conservatism starting the late Ching Dynasty and afterward under the demonstration of the determining. But in the period between liberation (1949) and the started the Cultural Revolution (1966) tow basically lines of through developed as...