Word: shih
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Said Communist Spokesman Lin Tso-han: "We would like to have a national congress called immediately." Cried Chungking's Dr. Wang Shih-chieh: "While Manchuria and other provinces are cut off from Free China, nationwide elections are impossible. The Government has promised all parties, including the Communists, equal status within one year after the war." There was charge and countercharge about the Chinese Red Army. Lin charged that Chungking wanted to cut its present strength of 470,000 men to 150,000. The Communists, retorted Dr. Wang, kept raising the ante: "At the beginning . . .Lin demanded twelve divisions...
Tihwa (pop. 50,000), the capital of Sinkiang Province, turned out thousands of Chinese, Mohammedans, Uigurs, Uzbeks, Kazaks and Kueihuas to greet the highest U.S. official who had ever visited that dot in vast Chinese Turkestan. In preparation for the great day, the Governor,General Sheng Shih-tsai, laid in a fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain...
...Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States and outstanding philosopher and historian, will teach the history of Chinese thought, from 700 B.C. to the present, for two terms, beginning next November. Formerly professor of Chinese Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the National University of Peiping, Dr. Shin is recognized as the leading figure in the Chinese literary renaissance...
...records. The disks give an English word or phrase, then the Chinese equivalent, then are silent so the student can imitate the Chinese, then reiterate the Chinese. The set of 25 records covers most fundamental situations. They should help soldiers to obey a Chinese maxim which Fang loves: Chien shih-mo jen shuo shih-mo hua (Whomever you see, talk his language...