Word: pai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists gave instructions about looting to Junan's lao pai hsing (common people). Their notice said: "When you want to rob the rich, you must not do it as you please. You must take a soldier with...
...With Wallace as your President," intoned the up-to-the-minute young Communist, "we could have peace. He represents your lao pai hsing. With Truman and the rest there can be no peace." After eight days of this, he ordered the missionaries to leave Tsaoyang. Hard-handed Wong kept some souvenirs: two radios, Pastor Werdal's Parker "51," and a silk sleeping bag belonging to an elderly woman missionary...
...young Cornell man named Hu Shih got a ducking. To memorialize the immersion, a soaking compatriot composed a poem in literary Chinese. Its mannered, delicate style seemed so ill-suited to the topic that young Hu dashed off some lustier lines of his own. They were written in Pai Hua (the living speech) instead of Wen Li (the literary language), and they were good. Until Hu did it, no one believed that serious literature could be made from, Pai Hua, as Dante had from Italian...
Returning to China, a Peking University professor at 26, Hu started a literary reform that crackled through China like fire through a paper house. Today Pai Hua is used in China's schools, books and some newspapers (though not government documents). All China reveres Hu Shih as the "Young Sage" (the old one: Confucius...
Following through on his clues, Pai was able to relax writing cramps in short order. His treatment was drastic psychotherapy-sedatives and insulin for anxious patients, hypnotic suggestion for the hysterical...