Word: shih
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benedict Arnold of the Chinese Revolution," Yuan Shih-kai became Provisional President of the Chinese Republic in March 1912. The next year he disrupted the Assembly called to draft a permanent constitution, outlawed the Kuomintang Party and established himself as dictator. In 1915 Yuan restored the monarchy with himself as Emperor, but was forced to renounce the throne a few months later...
From their monastic quarters near the main temple, the priests dragged the abbot of Paiyunkuan, An Shih-lin, and his favorite priest, Pai Chin-yi. In the flickering light of oil lamps, a bitter trial began. The priestly jury found the abbot and his henchman guilty of illegal relations with women (kept in a house beyond the temple walls); of squandering temple funds (to buy heroin); and of starving two Chinese because they refused to collaborate with the Japs...
Chinese officials winced under the storm, complained that the Americans just did not understand China. Wrote Shih Shih Hsin Pao, former Finance Minister H. H. Kung's own paper, in a painful flash of introspection...
...Young Marshal's punishment was cushioned captivity. It was known vaguely that he was somewhere in a closely guarded countryside villa. Recently Chinese political circles buzzed with rumors that the Generalissimo would send the Young Marshal to Manchuria to counteract the influence of his brother, Chang Hsueh-shih. The Communists have installed Chang Hsueh-shih as governor of strategic Liaoning province, and some Chinese think he is a potential Red candidate for boss of all Manchuria. Last week the rumors boiled down to the fact that the Generalissimo had sent a go-between to call on the Young Marshal...
...shared by "a beautiful and sweet girl who has good handwriting." Her name is Miss Chow. She writes poems and so does Chang. A sample of his verse, smuggled out to a Communist publication, was reprinted at week's end in Banker H. H. Kung's conservative Shih Shih Hsin...