Word: shansi
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...province of Szechwan in China lived until last week Li Ching-yun. In China where Age means something he was a great man. By his own story he was born in 1736, had lived 197 years. By the time he was ten years old he had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria gathering herbs. He continued to gather herbs for the rest of his first 100 years. He lived on herbs and plenty of rice wine. When asked for his secret of long life. Li Ching-yun gave it readily: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like...
Feng has been spending the summer in poor health near the "Sacred Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province. Should those three able heads really get together, Generalissimo Chiang, Marshal Chang Jr. and the so-called Chinese Government at Nanking may expect to be wiped from the map while ancient glory is restored to PEKING...
...meet Dastard Chang in Dairen came representatives of China's two highest-minded, purest-hearted itinerant warriors: the "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, former "Model Governor" of Shansi Province (TIME, Sept...
...past twelvemonth potent, progressive President Chiang has brought peace to most of China by driving two rival War Lords out of China, bringing a third into his regime. Nos. 1 & 2 are ex-Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi ("The Model Province") and ex-Generalissimo Feng Yu-hsiang of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
...taking his ease in Japanese Dairen; Feng is skulking in Honan with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...