Word: shih
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter of 1934 Sheng Shih-tsai, a Manchurian-born Chinese officer who had assumed dictatorship of the province, was beleaguered in the provincial capital at Urumchi. Outside the city's walls, in the bitter cold, young Ma Chung-ying's troops were slaughtering and torturing Chinese refugees. Cut off, separated from the Central Government by over 1,500 miles of desert and mountains, Sheng had two choices: to surrender himself and his troops to certain butchery; or to accept aid where he could find...
...Ying Sung, our Chinese researcher, is a Wellesley graduate who spent five years as Professor of Western Literature at the University of Peking. There she worked with China's foremost scholar, slight, charming Dr. Hu Shih. She came to the U.S. in 1940, broadcast one of Mme. Chiang's speeches to the Nazis in German, headed the Chinese desk at the OWI for thirteen months...
...almost democratic diversity and vivacity. No newspapers have been suppressed outright except the "mosquito" tabloids which before the war achieved a lewdness beyond description. Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than all the others combined. All depend for most of their foreign...
...figures: more than 3,500 members (about half of them men), weekly meetings, an average attendance of from 500 to 1,000. Speakers who have addressed the Council and answered open-forum questions resemble a walking Who's Who of international affairs -China's Dr. Hu Shih, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, former Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew, Peru's Dr. Alberto Arca-Parró, a host of others...
...liberal, pro-British representative in the Gissimo's cabal is Wang Shih-chieh, 52, lawyer and educator. Wang is Chief of the State Planning Department and President of the People's Political Council. Weekly he and other scholars lunch with the Gissimo, academically review China policy...