Word: sheng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, China's Ta Rung Pao (The Impartial) cherished its role as an independent newspaper, liked to think of itself as the New York Times of China. But last November, Editor Wang Yun-sheng, correctly gauging the strength of the red tide, left the main office at Shanghai and turned up in Communist-held Peiping to confess his sins. In 20 years with Ta Rung Pao, admitted Wang, he had failed: "Although [I tried] to run the paper as an independent one, in reality it has betrayed the interests of the people . . . There is no neutrality for a journalist...
...what he was fighting for into his "three principles": Min Tsu (national unity), Min Chuan (political democracy) and Min Sheng (people's livelihood). By 1923, Sun Yat-sen accepted Soviet Russia as an ally because Communist Russia had renounced all the old imperial claims to special "rights" in Manchuria and North China. (Nevertheless, Sun Yat-sen explicitly rejected Marxism for China.) The Russians sent bright young Comintern legmen like Michael Borodin to "cooperate" with Sun Yat-sen at Canton while organizing the Communist Party of China at the same time...
...stock exchange transactions were frozen. The day before the announcement, a traders' pool, working on inside information, dumped 30 million shares on the market in what Shanghai papers dubbed "Operation Giant Bear." Promptly arrested as broker for the deal was Tu Vee-pin, son of Tu Yueh-sheng, president of Shanghai's stock exchange and one of the most powerful men in Shanghai. Big merchant hoarders and price riggers were also pulled...
Reluctant Givers. Recently the government asked China's wealthy to donate $1,000,000 (U.S.) for the relief of war refugees. The "special relief levy" met with a chilly response from such men as Tu Yueh-sheng, Shanghai's richest and most powerful citizen, who sits on the boards of 44 business enterprises and eight benevolent associations. Tu, who got his start as the Al Capone of the city's underworld, didn't want to give anything at first. After Shanghai's Mayor K. C. Wu threatened to publish the names of wealthy nongivers...
Characterizing the Generalissimo as "another Hitler," General Fong Mu-sheng, a self-declared exile opposing the Nationalist policies, claimed that the Kuomintang has lost the loyalty of both soldiers and people as a result of whole-sale graft and treachery...