Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro to get a living out of writing. In Haiti he started to think about making poetry pay, and during the next few years which took him from Port an Prince to Havana, through the south via New York to San Francisco, and then to Moscow, Tashkent, Tokyo, Shanghai, Carmel, California, Mexico City, Harlem, Cleveland, Madrid, and finally Paris, he got along...
With Nationalist. China crumbling in 1948, Chennault loaded his Shanghai maintenance base onto a converted LST, fled first to Canton, then to Hainan, on to Hong Kong and finally across the Formosa Strait to Formosa, where CAT has stayed ever since. Flying along the perimeter of Red Asia, Chennault and CAT staked their entire future in 1949 on a coup to keep 71 planes of two Chinese national airlines from falling into Red hands. When the crews defected, leaving most of the transports at Hong Kong's airport, Chennault and his friends signed notes...
Word has seeped back that Ling Hsingyu, formerly a student at New York University, returned to Red China only to find himself in a labor camp. Huang Chiateh, once a professor at Shanghai's St. John's University, was put to work in a coal mine. One student was compelled to write a "thought compendium," and, for "lack of frankness," to slap himself publicly until blood ran out of his mouth. Often Red China's own propaganda betrays itself. "You people living in the other world don't understand our world," another returnee wrote to friends...
...resorts.) Starting in China in 1919, Starr's group built its American-Asiatic Underwriters into Asia's biggest insurance operation, with more than half of China's total business; it accumulated large real-estate holdings, opened Studebaker and Buick-Vauxhall agencies, published Shanghai's English-language Evening Post & Mercury. When Charles S. Miner took over in 1948, the company was doing a highly successful business and hoped it could continue under the. Communists. Starr's Evening Post even fell for the line that the Reds were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow, went...
...appeal for the youth of China, at the Methodist Centennial in Columbus, Ohio in 1919, I went to China as his assistant; my first summer there was spent with Paul and Agnes and their three youngsters in the mountains of Fukien. As long as they lived in Shanghai, their home was open to me. After reading "Happy Man," one happy woman reflects that except for Paul Hutchinson I might never have gone to China, might never have met George Fitch,*might never have found myself a mother of six and grandmother...