Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jardine, Matheson & Co. and other big British traders in Red China, the road to disillusion has been a way of travail. After the Reds won the China mainland, such firms as Jardine's, Butterfield & Swire, and Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. had the rosily misguided notion that they could do profitable business with Mao Tse-tung. It was in part because of their illusions and their influence that Britain's Labor government of the time recognized the Mao regime...
...closemouthed about his personal life. The only child of the Generalissimo's first marriage, he was a bumptious youth who was jailed in Shanghai by the British when he was 15 for fomenting a student strike. Soon after, he told his father he wanted to go to Moscow, "to learn more about revolutionary ideas...
Died. Wu Te-chen, 65, onetime Vice Premier and Foreign Minister of Nationalist China (1948-49), secretary general of the Kuomintang Party (1941-49), and mayor of Shanghai (1932-37); after long illness; in Taipeh, Formosa...
...British freighter Nigelock, a converted wartime corvette loaded with fruit and vegetables, steamed through the China Sea one velvet night last week, outward bound from Communist Shanghai to Communist Amoy. At-first light, a gunboat appeared on the port bow and ordered the Britisher to heave to. Not me, said Nigelock's captain, and rang for full steam ahead. His radio crackled an S O S to the British destroyer Cockade, on patrol in the Formosa strait...
...Hong Kong last week, another American journalist started on the long voyage home. The 5:50 p.m. train that crosses over from Lo Wu, last stop in Red China, disgorged harried, sweating John William ("Bill") Powell, his wife and two children. Powell, 34. editor of Shanghai's China Monthly Review until it folded last month "because we went broke," was the last U.S. journalist to publish in Red China...