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Died. Li Chi-shen, 75, volatile vice chairman of Red China's National People's Congress, onetime top-ranking soldier of Chiang Kai-shek who led a bloody purge against the Communists in 1927, served as Chiang's chief of staff (1928), often quarreled with the Generalissimo, decisively in 1947 when at the height of the military crisis he tried to form a third party of liberals and warlords to mediate between the Nationalists and the Communists; of cancer and a cerebral thrombosis; in Peking...
Career Man. In Taipei, Formosa, the China Post reported speculation as to why Dr. Shen Chang-huan had been appointed Ambassador to Spain: "Because the last two words of his name sound like Don Juan; because he knows how to dance the tango; because he was born in the year of the Bull...
...With elaborate unconcern, Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama predicted that the Chinese Reds would eventually "calm down" and trade with Japan anyway. And as he headed out into the rain for his annual cherryblossom-viewing party, Nobusuke Kishi ostentatiously shared his umbrella with Nationalist China's beaming Ambassador Shen Chin-ting...
...refrain from adding feet." Perhaps in reply Ch'iu Ying painted his Intellectual Conversation in the Shade of T'ung Trees, which measures nine feet tall. Done in a freer, bolder style, it is a resounding answer to his critics and a masterpiece of brush technique. ¶ Shen Chou, who inherited the Literary Man's Painting tradition, played the role of rustic philosopher, ignoring the ceremonial elegance of court life. Near the center of the new wen-jen hua movement which he founded, Painter Shen Chou retired to his garden pavilion. He depicted his ideal life...
...LIANG-SHEN LEE Hanover...