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Despite wars and rumors of wars in China, despite pestilence, flood and famine, the great sprawling city of Peiping has been comparatively prosperous and peaceable the past four years. That it remained peaceable last week was not the fault of the Japanese Legation guard. Acting under somebody's orders, they...
The only leader of modern China who has inherited his authority is the well-meaning, hollow-eyed young man known throughout China as "The Young Mar-shal," Chang Hsueh-liang. He is the deposed warlord of Manchuria and, until last week, ruler of Peiping and the surrounding province. Last week...
(3 of 5) because of Peiping. Despite the growth of Nanking and the commercial supremacy of Shanghai, Peiping still looks like the capital of China. It is one of the tourist centres of the world-more so than ever now that the vast, incredible Forbidden City with its acres of...
In any other country the consequence of such a move would have been immediate turmoil, but the body politic of China is so loosely articulated that it can lose an arm or a leg without feeling it for weeks. So China drifted along last week. Not so Chiang Kaishek. Night...
Young Chang followed Wang out two days later, handed over his control to two committees, one political, one financial. It was a move that Peiping observers have been expecting for nearly two years. Well meaning, sickly, dope-taking Young Chang had never the influence or the ability of his sly...