Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan architect, designer of"Yale in China" (Ya-li), Changsha, Hunan; Yenching University, Peking; William ("Billy") Lyon Phelps's residence. New Haven, Conn. Undeterred by wars, far-sighted President Chiang Kai-shek had commissioned Architect Murphy to plan a new city of Nanking, a new capital for the Nationalist government...
Fortnight ago the armies of the rebellious generals of the southern province of Kwangsi moved against Canton, capital of Kwantung province, rich, commercial seaport of the Nationalist Government. Canton's hasty preparations for defense seemed woefully inadequate. Oracular foreign correspondents took the fall of Canton for granted, foresaw a powerful rebellion against the Nanking government with the city of Canton as a base for the rebels. Such correspondents under estimated Kwantung strategy...
...Nanking last week, the progressive Nationalist Government passed a decree forbidding decapitation as a method of punishment. The abolishment of decapitation, however, does not even remotely imply the abolishment of capital punishment in China. It is merely the long, bright, classic sword of the headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime...
Suddenly little glass balls, hundreds of them, hurtled from the gallery and burst among audience, musicians, actors. Rose a towering, awful stench. Choking and clenching their noses, the Poles fled from the opera house, to be met outside by German Nationalist students who clenched clubs...
...captured Chefoo (TIME, April 8). He drove the Nationalist General Liu Chen-nien to take refuge in the ancient walled city of Ninghaichow (TIME, April 15) and laid a siege to it which was continuing last week...