Word: tings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...
...When Ting Ling arrived at Chairman Mao's headquarters in Shensi province in 1934, she had all the right credentials: literary fame, a husband executed by the Central government for treason, a year in a Nationalist prison herself. Mao was so impressed that he promptly gave her a job (as vice chairman of a Red army guard unit), then proceeded to write a poem in praise both of Ting Ling and her new job, which by poetic license upgraded the job a bit. Sang Mao: "In the past a literary miss, she is now a General of Armies...
Rollcall of Revolt. Last week, at 50, Stalin Prizewinner Ting Ling and Chen Chi-hsia, another eminent Chinese writer, found themselves under savage attack by the Union of Chinese Writers on charges of "rightist conspiracy" to establish a Western-style democratic system in China...
...Ting Ling and Chen were apparently among the weeds that popped up under Mao's new policy of letting all flowers bloom. The pruning shears were hard at work last week. For more than two months Radio Peking has been airing a steady rollcall of revolts, rebellions, plots and counter-revolutionary movements. In Fukien province one counter-revolutionary group was said to have created a complete organization including shadow brigades, divisions and an army, worked out detailed plans to rob grain storehouses and assassinate government officials...
Some churchmen are trying to spread the notion that the Chinese Communists are really being kind to Christians. A fortnight ago, Anglican Bishop K. H. Ting of Chekiang appeared at the World Council of Churches meeting in Hungary (TIME, Aug. 13) to say that Christian churches in Communist China are free. The Chinese people, said Bishop Ting, have come to regard Communist rule as "an act of God and a demonstration of His love." Last week brought further evidence of just how "free" Christianity is in Red China. After keeping him prisoner for five years, the Communists released Henry Ambrose...