Word: shih
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance of food in China. Once she saw her mother stave off a massacre with a batch of cookies. Mrs. Buck spent ten years reading the whole body of Chinese novels before she herself wrote. She is now translating the Chinese classic Shuihu, written in the 13th Century by Shih Nai-han. Seventy chapters long, this book will not appear before 1934. Sons, a sequel to The Good Earth, is being serialized in Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Buck's editors describe her as "overwhelmed by the tremendous furor her works have caused." But Mrs. Buck is sturdy, composed...
...while puzzled Chinese were trying to realize the trouble in the South, even more violent war broke out to the northward. The "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang and Northern Generals Shih Yu-san and Sun Tien-ying moved their combined forces (110,000 men) across Honan Province, threatening the juncture of the Lung-Hai and Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping...
Still further trouble for the Nationalists arrived with the Japanese reply to a note protesting anti-Chinese riots in Korea. The reply was "unsatisfactory" to Chiang Kaishek. While drafting a second note and contemplating a Japanese boycott, the Nationalists were alarmed to hear that Rebel General Shih Yu-san was receiving advice from many a Japanese military specialist...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
China has no constitution in the accepted meaning of the word, no bill of rights, and her greatest living sage Dr. Hu Shih (TIME, Sept. 9) has recently said: There has never been any attempt to define by law the limits of government action in China, nor has there been any constitutional provision for the protection of the rights and liberties of the people." Therefore the great powers were closely attentive, fortnight ago, when Foreign Minister Cheng-Ting ("C. T.") Wang cockily announced that his government had abolished the right ("extraterritoriality") of foreigners in China to be tried in their...