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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pei Wen-chung is China's most noted paleontologist. He made his reputation in 1929 when he discovered the skull of Sinanthropus, the Peking man, who lived half a million years ago. Recently Dr. Pei discovered some Chinese contemporaries known as "The Fire Society." Shocked and angry after a trip to his native village, he wrote about it in Tientsin's Ta Kung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mopping Up the People | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...flamboyant Reynolds Packard, 43, tossed off the vodka in, one neat kan pei (bottoms up). Then he made a speech, whose opening remark was directed at the editor of the Peiping Chronicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: China Incident | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

George Jaszi and Pei-Kang Chang, who received Ph.D.s in 1946, each won a $500 David P. Wells Prize in Economics yesterday for a thesis in the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Awards Two $500 Economics Prizes | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

...China?" will be Chen Chi-Mai, counsellor to the Chinese Embassy and wartime assistant to Chiang Kai-Shek, and John K. Fairbank '29, associate professor of History. The Forum will be moderated by Warren A. Seavey '01, Bussey Professor of Law and formerly head of the law school at Pei Yang University in China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. S. Role in Chinese Problems Is Feature Of Fourth Law Forum | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

Tsuyee Pel. Recalled last fall from a Government mission to New York, where his doctor had discovered a tuberculous spot on one lung, energetic Tsuyee Pei refused to be invalided, instead became a capable governor of the Central Bank of China. Scrupulously honest and immensely clever, Pei has brought 30 years of experience to bear on his nearly hopeless task, has failed to stabilize China's currency but at least has put brakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honest & Able | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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