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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Sun died (1925), Chiang Kai-shek became the outstanding Nationalist leader, though still little known in the Occident. He led the greatest conquering army which China hao known in the present century up from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), capturing successively all the chief strongholds south of the middle Yangtze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CONQUEROR | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Against this astute Mogul, wise in the thought of the Occident, the Cantonese War Lord Chiang Kai-shek steadily deployed his troops last week. He it was who created for Dr. Sun the Whampoa Military Academy in which the officers of the new Cantonese army received their military and political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Best of Evils | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Because personal, inspiration is almost impossible to isolate or to define it is very easy to pass it over with a sneer about "another myth", or some similar remark. Nevertheless it remains true that long after the date of the invention of gunpowder in the Occident, or the meaning of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSPIRATIONAL TEACHERS | 11/26/1926 | See Source »

"Roy Bradley" himself, despite a certain lack of ingenuousness that inevitably marks confessions in the Occident, remains a frenzied, consumptive paranoiac, self-immolated for revenge upon Barbarism, babbling as he waits for death that the grey bones of New England babies became fertilizer for the prairie soil; that the Puritans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pretty Crazy | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

Mystery Army. At Canton the political heirs of Sun Yat-sen had cut themselves off from the Occident by imposing an anti-British boycott. Behind this screen they organized and drilled an army whose strength was universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Double Ten | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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