Word: taos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Soumay Tcheng, 65, petite, irrepressible Chinese patriot who spent her life fighting for the freedom of China and the emancipation of women, became China's first woman lawyer, wife of Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. (1942-46); of cancer; in Los Angeles. At 17 Madame Wei left home to join Sun Yat-sen's exiled Kuomintang Party in Japan, returned to help plot the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. She carried secret messages and bombs in a suitcase, held revolutionary meetings in her own home, even though her father was a prominent figure...
Brief In Quemoy, Judge Hu Tao-hui resigned under fire after he granted a divorce without hearing the husband's side, then later married the divorcee...
...years ago last week, the word sped swiftly through Shanghai: "Palu tao-le [The Communists have come] " Along the narrow streets, through the scrupulously landscaped European concessions, onto the wide Bund fronting the busy Whangpoo River, swarmed the small neat soldiers in mustard-colored uniforms. The uneasy Red conquerors turned a startled gaze on the Western-style skyscrapers, the banks and private clubs and cabarets of the greatest city on the Asian mainland (pop. 5,000,000), which had just fallen to them without a fight...
...totally ignorant of science (which he dislikes) and, by the testimony of one of his former teachers, is "terrible at mathematics." Except for whatever he may have picked up on two brief trips to Moscow, he knows the world outside China only at secondhand, and according to Chang Kuo-tao, once his colleague on the Chinese Communist Politburo, he is a poor administrator ("Vague about details and has a rather poor memory about people who are not constantly around him"). Essentially, Mao's world is an imaginary one-a curious melange of Chinese monarchical concepts and Marxist ideology...
...recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint new bishops for Canton and Shanghai. When Bishop Li Tao-nan of Puichi was first ordered to consecrate bishops, he refused. But after two weeks of torture, he surrendered. Last April he officiated at the consecration of Tung Kwang-ching of Hankow and Yuan Wenhua of Wuchang...