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Life came to Chiang Kai-shek 39 years ago in a tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
...Ningpo. Rioting on a large scale began. Shops were looted and smashed. U. S. destroyers appeared on the scene. Calm followed...
...died at his residence, 717 Cambridge street, yesterday at 4.30 P. M., of acute pneumonia, after an illness of two weeks. He was a native of Ningpo, and came to this country in 1879. He was appointed professor of Chinese at Harvard for three years, commencing Sept. 1, 1879. In China he belonged to a family of high rank, was a mandarin of the third grade and held several important government positions at Ningpo. He was a sub-prefect, and by imperial promotion was made prefect. Since he came to Cambridge he has had three pupils, one of whom...
PROFESSOR KO KUN HUA has presented to the Library a volume of his own poetry, entitled "Verses composed in the Hall of Longevity." The volume is a small octavo, printed privately at Ningpo, in 1879, and is unaccompanied by a translation...