Word: shih
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberal folklore regarded Chinese Communists as humanitarians who would rather re-educate criminals than punish them. Reports of purges inside China under the new Red penal code have brushed away most vestiges of this belief. Shih Liang, Red China's woman Minister of Justice, in recent instructions to her courts finally laid it to rest...
Chinese Communist courts, according to Minister Shih, have been too soft on antiCommunists. Punishment must now be meted out quickly and heavily. Under her new codes, courts may order a prisoner shot for his "intentions"-which the courts must judge at their discretion. They can punish "counterrevolutionaries" who are merely "waiting for a chance to commit a crime." The new penalties may be retroactive, Madame Shih continued. Verdicts "should conform to prevailing policy...
...historical fact differentiates the Chinese Communist Party from Communist movements in any other country outside of Soviet Russia, a fact essential to a clear understanding of what has been happening in China during the last quarter of a century," wrote Dr. Hu Shih, China's foremost scholar and onetime ambassador to the U.S. "The Chinese Communist Party, partly by design and partly by extraordinary circumstances, has possessed a formidable army of its own almost from the very early years of its founding. This unique feature has been the most important source of its strength, which Stalin, the masterful strategist...
Died. Yen Pi Shih, fiftyish, Moscow-trained former member of Communist China's Politburo; after long illness; in Peking...
China's scholarly Dr. Hu Shih, former president of Peking National University and Ambassador to Washington from 1938 to 1942, is now in the U.S., a refugee from his country's Red rulers. His son, Hu Szu-tu, 28, is still behind the Bamboo Curtain, has already undergone the so-called "new learning" in political science at the North China Revolutionary University in Peking...