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Word: shantung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, however, this lying-truth availed nothing. The Chinese officer had probably been warned by spies in advance of Mme. Borodin's coming. He arrested her and the couriers, put them on an armored train under heavy guard, and rushed them as valuable hostages to Tsinan, Shantung, capital of their chief enemy, "Chang of Shantung," notorious, unprincipled War Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mrs. Grosberg | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Along the Chinese battlefront west of Shanghai all was suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Quiet Week | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...Chang of Shantung" (Chang Tsung-chang) against whom Li mutinied last week; and the awful, potent "Chang of Manchuria," the only Chinese war lord with an army equipped in really Occidental style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Quiet Week | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Amid Homeric moil and treachery the city of Shanghai changed hands, last week, falling to China's best detested War Lord, Chang Tsung-chang, called "Chang of Shantung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Basest War Lord | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

When Chang, a six-foot bandit chieftain, visited Peking, last winter, cultivated Chinese were shocked to see in his train as concubines some eighty young women seized by his soldiers from the richest fathers and husbands in Shantung province. Conscienceless and avaricious, Chang has farmed tribute out of this densely populated province until even the poorest have yielded all that could be seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Basest War Lord | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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