Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sen Prime Mover...
...factions are almost exact opposites. The Cantonese in the South were first organized by the great leader, Sun Yat-Sen. He possessed the ambition to make every Chinese man, woman, and child politically conscious. His task was almost inconceivable to the Western mind. China for 2000 years had been steeped in the Confucian doctrine that 'people can be made to follow but not to know why', and during the Manchu dynasty the notice was posted in tea-houses the country over--'Don't talk politics...
...nature a political animal' might have done for the Greeks but not for the Chinese. It was Sun Yat-Sen's task, and is now that of the Canton 'Nationalists', to make this saying apply in contemporary China...
Such words are characteristic of the man. His dogs were of paramount importance to him, for with them he delighted to go on long completely solitary hunting trips. He was shocked at the squandering of money on his portrait, for he himself spends every copper sen (.005c) with the utmost circumspection-and once squelched attempts to start a popular subscription from which he would hava received...
...success succeeds nowhere faster than in China, victorious Chang Kai-shek was kept busy receiving protestations of "loyalty" from the former subordinate generals of Wu Pei-fu. These gentry, stranded with their bands of mercenary soldiers, turned their coats with unction and alacrity. Among the first was General Yang Sen, until last week nominally subordinate to Wu Pei-fu, actually the petty despot of Wanhsien on the Yangtze, which leaped to international fame when Yang seized two British river steamers (TIME, Sept. 20) and was bombarded by British river warships for his pains...