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In Nanking ("Southern Capital"), where the Nationalist Government which purports to rule all China is established (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), slender, shrill President Chiang Kai-shek insisted that Peking's real name is the one he gave it two years ago, "Peiping," which means "Northern Peace."
Let the most timid of travelers not fear to visit any Chinese place on the itinerary of a major steamship line or world cruise. (Safest of all Chinese places are the International Quarter at Shanghai guarded by white police, Peiping where U. S. Marines are quartered, and the British part...
But let no ordinary traveler strike off alone into China's bandit-infested hinterlands; and all travelers know that the only well-guarded railways in China proper are the short line connecting Nanking, the new capital, with the seaport of Shanghai, and the slightly longer one connecting Peiping (formerly...
"Peiping has been fortunate in possessing an able administration during this entire period, most of them adherents of General Yen Hsi-shan, the 'model governor' of Shansi. . . ."
Sprawling China presented to the world last week a grim picture in hodge podge. While Peiping boasted of its well-fed, growing population (see p. 24), 4,000,000 famine-shriveled Chinamen, not 400 miles to the west in Shansi and neighboring provinces, looked to almost certain death before spring...