Word: shih
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Nationalist government this week announced the execution in Formosa of three men and a woman: Lieut. General Wu Shih, former Vice Minister of Defense; Lieut. General Chen Pao-chong, former conscription boss; Colonel Nyi Shih and Miss Tsu Kan-tse. Charged with having plotted to deliver Formosa to the Communists, they had been under arrest since last March when a secret radio transmitter was found in the Defense Ministry...
...rather amused by the footnote to your story of Hainan Island [TIME, Jan. 30]. It states, inter alia, that "Premier Wang An-shih's statism [1069-76] reduced China to economic and political chaos." This reminds me of an episode which, I think, may be worth mentioning...
...must know your great statesman Wang An-shih...
...said without hesitation, "I think your government should introduce the same reforms as Wang An-shih advocated in his time...
...Most celebrated was Su Tung Po (1036-1101), who was exiled for three years to Hainan. Poet, painter, engineer and herbalist, Su fought against the state socialism of Premier Wang An-shih, who favored government monopoly of retail and wholesale trade, government control of transport (horses) and credit (loans to farmers). After eight years, Wang's statism reduced China to economic and political chaos...