Word: tien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most comfortable beats. Life in the walled university city, the base for covering North China, was graceful, unhurried, and for a foreigner with U.S. dollars comparatively cheap. Newsmen came for brief visits and, taken by Peiping's ancient charms, often stayed on for months in Ta Tien Shui Ching Hutung (Big Sweet Water Well Alley), Peiping's correspondents...
...Chen's gendarmes fired on a crowd of demonstrators carrying placards, killed four, wounded eleven. The rebellion was on. Crowds seized mainlanders, beat some to death with two-by-fours. They set up a People's Purge Committee. Moderates in the Committee-like the tea merchant Wang Tien-teng-broadcast middle-of-the-road demands: election of mayors; public enterprises to be run by Formosans; abolition of monopolies. Said Wang: "We do not request independence. We support the Central Government and we love our motherland...
...overcoat and kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything for the people...
...last week, bringing British good will, good works and goods, including a 24-piece dessert service for Madame Chiang Kaishek, and a 40-piece porcelain tea service for Madame Sun Yatsen. The Chinese responded with an enthusiastic welcome, including a poem in her honor by Ambassador to Britain Cheng Tien...
Decline of the West. The Church is also changing its administrative complexion in China. Last week China's first cardinal-shy, humble Thomas Tien was on his way back from Rome. He will take up residence not in Tsingtao (his old vicariate) or Nanking (China's capital) but in Peiping. Explained a Vatican spokesman: "Peiping is the moral capital of China, essentially Chinese, least subject to Western influence...