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The Chinese government needed a field general with the habit of success. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek thought he had found just the man. To the post of military commander for all North China, with headquarters in Peiping, he called bulletheaded, bland-eyed, 53-year-old General Fu Tso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Real Soldier | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

In North China, too, the Communists now held most of the territory, as well as unquestioned military initiative. Last week they were moving on Paoting, 90 miles from Peiping.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: First (and Last?) Election | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

There was no mistaking the splashy flowered dresses, the flashy painted faces of the "first class" girls from Peiping's red light district. More than 300 of them ("tripping daintily by like so many pretty birds " one newspaper reported) flocked into the Great Continent Theater. Why this concentration of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sixth Column | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

"Stand by Your Posts." One enterprising reporter discovered why. In a grim moment of Chinese history, Peiping's staid Municipal Council had had a grimly amusing idea: a whole battalion of potential

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sixth Column | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

To help Peiping's 1,700 registered prostitutes execute their new duties, the police planned a month-long lecture course. Some of the girls railed at the hour set for the lectures. Said Red Pearl, of the Bright Star house, "Nine o'clock is very inconvenient. Our overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sixth Column | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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