Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalist (Cantonese) advance upon Shanghai (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) brought them a great victory early in the week when they captured and looted Hangchow, 113 miles from Shanghai, and put to flight the troops of War Lord Sun Chuan-fang, defender of Shanghai...
...Honan province the local "Scholar" War Lord Wu Pei-fu was holding back troops of the Peking War Lord Chang Tso-lin which had been despatched to defend Shanghai from the Nationalists by the Peking-Manchuria faction...
When the four hundred American students on the University Afloat visited Shanghai a month ago, they found no indication of the revolution. It was instead a revelation...
Governor H. J. Allen wrote: "With a humility which is after all, the beginning of wisdom a number of students have asked for better opportunities to study international problems. Our vessel sailed out of Shanghai dock, as she had sailed in, to the accompaniment of fire crackers and cordial cheers exchanged between the docks and the decks. The fire cracker seems to be to the Chinese what the Aloha is to the Hawaiian. It's their way of saying welcome and goodbye with emphasis...
...students spent two very illuminating days in Shanghai. They came in to China with a confused idea that we would be in the midst of war's alarms. Instead of that we found order, peace, and a cordiality so eager and genuine that we carry away from Shanghai some of the most impressive memories of the cruise. Here, as in Japan, we find a devotion to education which surely must be significant of the intention of these ancient people to meet the West with western methods and western understanding. As one student expressed it, 'The manner in which these Chinese...