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In 1851 an army of 40,000 "God-worshipers," as they called themselves, began a march on Peking from about 300 miles west of Canton. They wore their hair long, shunning the shaved head and braided pigtail as marks of Manchu enslavement, and took spirited noms de guerre-"Enemy-Breaking...
Ho began by ferreting out a few priests willing to collaborate as a step to higher rank, installed them in key posts. "Patriotic Priest" Chang Shih-liang, for one, has run the Shanghai diocese since the jailing of Shanghai's Bishop Kung Pinmei in 1955, goes about dressed in...
Red China's Nanking Observatory predicted that it would be destroyed within 10 days, and the Peiping radio said the rocket woul pass over parts of China today and tomorrow.
Professor Huang, now 59, got part of his early training from his family's picture-mounter, Su Chang, whose "Studio of Pines and Snow" was a collector's hangout famous throughout China. A recognized painter by the time he was 20, Huang spent the Nationalist government's...
Through the years, Chinese students have often led the way for their elders, sounded the bell that called China to reform and revolt. And this time, said Hu, "the response was almost unanimous from all student bodies in every part of China -from Mukden to Canton, from Shanghai and Nanking...