Word: shen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silly." Office seekers worked out their own electoral techniques. Nanking noted with special interest the race of the Misses Liu, Li and Shen for a seat in the Yuan. Gossiped China News: "Miss Liu has been telling people, in an offhand manner, 'Oh, by the way, do you know that Miss Li long ago said she is not interested in running?' Miss Li has countered by telling people, 'Don't be silly-of course I'm interested...
...cheng is commander of the Communists' Shantung-Shensi-Hopeh-Honan military areas. Chinese Communists, who regard him as a master of mobile warfare, have a new nickname for him: Chang-shen Chiang-chun (Always Victorious General...
...their presence." Forever China is a literary adventure and discovery. It sometimes suffers from, overwriting and hyperbole. But these are minor flaws among the major pleasures of a superior book. There is a good sample of the Payne style in his evaluation of the bygone Chinese warrior-poet Shen Shan...
...more energetic foreign policy, with special emphasis on improving relations with Soviet Russia. (Chungking made a gesture in this direction last month when Sinkiang's anti-Soviet governor Shen Shihtsai was replaced by General Wu Chung-hsin, an expert conciliator. His nickname: Ho-shih-laoor"Old-Man-Smooth-lt-Over...
...Dealer. Next day Henry Wallace pulled on black rubbers and sloshed happily about the water-soaked rice fields 50 miles outside Chungking. Avidly he discussed new strains of disease-resistant rice, the intricacies of upping rice production. He also heard a polite suggestion by Agriculture Minister H. L. Shen that he be made "Agricultural Minister for the World...