Word: piao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic instruments, was as tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely. But when Professor Wei Chung-loh of China's Ta Tung National Research Institute swung out on his p'i p'a (traditional guitar of the ancient Chinese princes), they cheered...
Favorite guerrilla tale is that of 24 Chinese who, caught in Pingchüan when the Japanese entered the city, donned the blood-stained uniforms of dead Japanese, walked out of the city unmolested. This trick sometimes boomerangs. Recently 8th Route Army General Lin Piao, regarded as the ablest Chinese strategist now in the field, returned from a raid with 600 of his men who were dressed as Japanese, mounted on Japanese horses. Their own guerrillas ambushed them, wounded a number, including General Lin, before their identity was established...
...background of Red Army leaders. One was Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, an "old-shoe sort of man" now past 50, once a powerful politician adept at the chess game of Chinese politics, who became a revolutionist in 1922 and gave his fortune to the Reds. Another was Lin-Piao, 29-year-old head of the Red Academy and conceded to be one of the greatest military strategists in China, who had been a colonel in Chiang Kai-shek's army...