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"For us now there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Off with the Dance | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Names for a General. In Nanking, Chinese leaders turned over in their minds Wedemeyer's parting advice:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Ivory Tower | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Music for Cows. One man whose liberalism and incorruptibility was accepted by all non-Communist Americans in China was Dr. Hu Shih, president of the University of Peking and former Ambassador to the U.S. Last week Dr. Hu Shih said of the U.S.: "Don't they see there'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Ivory Tower | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

In Nanking, the Government announced "thrift and austerity" decrees to save dwindling foreign exchange and increase efficiency. The Government payroll (on which, a Cabinet spokesman estimated, some 18 million Chinese, including Army and students, now depend) would be reduced immediately. Food, cloth, gasoline and newsprint would come under new rationing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Ivory Tower | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Princess Elizabeth, whose country house burned and who would have no trousseau, had nice news for a change. Nanking sent a Foreign Office man into Kiangsi province to watch over the production of a good Chinese porcelain service for her.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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