Word: shih
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear the Occidental air of "yellow peril" the distinguished Chinese philosopher, Hu Shih, denies, startlingly, conclusively, that the Western machine-age man controlled, is "materialistic" while the Oriental hand-to-mouth, disease-ridden existence is "spiritual," and therefore potentially superior...
...that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang Shao-yi was sent to Washington as special Ambassador of the Manchu Emperor. Later he served as Prime Minister of the Government at Peking and as Minister of Finance under the Cantonese Government. He saw his son-in-law, Dr. Wellington...
Outstanding among contributors to the ''vengeance fund," last week, was Yuan's onetime sixth and favorite concubine, now a very aged lady of august consequence and immense wealth. With her approval, Yuan Shih-kai's eldest son, Yuan Keh-cheng, took charge of the $2,000,000 fund and announced that he would at once raise and equip two brigades of troops to fight against Feng Yu-hsiang, despoiler of tombs...
...China. At present Feng Yu-hsiang is fighting on the side of the Southern Nanking Nationalist Government and against the Northern armies of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, famed semi-imperial Dictator. Thus it will be under the banner of Dictator Chang Tso-lin that the vengeance brigades of Yuan Shih-kai's relatives will fight...
Chinese who cannot but deplore the present political disintegration of their country, wished last week that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will...