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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow, delegates to the emergency session of the Kuomintang Party Congress, elated over recent Chinese successes, conferred on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the title "Tsung Tsai" of the Kuomintang. China's dominant party. "Tsung Tsai" has almost thesame meaning as "tsung Li," the Kuomanting title fro Dr. Sun Yatsen, which translates as Führer orDuce. However, Kuomintang delegates last week shied away from the dictatorial connotations of Chiang's new title, insisted that it merely meant "Leader of the Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Guns & Bugs | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Calling attention to typhus, smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, meningitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis and venereal disease, the League's Health Committee pessimistically declared: "The diseases enumerated above do not exhaust the list of possible epidemics which may result from military operations in China or from their repercussions." Dr. Victor Hoo Chi-tsai, China's representative on the Health Committee, asked that anti-epidemic units be sent to China without delay. For this the League's Assembly immediately provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plagues of China | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...Emaciated General Tsai Ting-kai, heroic commander of the immortal 19th Route Army, defenders of Shanghai in 1932, had arrived during the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: 0.185416666666667 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

From a dinner in honor of General Tsai Ting-kai, Harry Whinna Nice, Republican candidate for Governor of Maryland, hurried off to attend a meeting of his campaign finance committee at the home of a Baltimore banker. In the banker's dark and unfamiliar garden, Candidate Nice toppled down a short flight of stone steps, fractured his right arm. Arm and shoulder in plaster cast, he continued to campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 15, 1934 | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...statesman, General Tsai has no patience with what he considers to be Generalissimo Chiang's policy of "selling out" China to Japan little by little, thus gaining respite in which to organize and unify China's factions in the vast territory which is left. With passionate invective, firing his points explosively in Chinese like cannon balls, Tsai accused Chiang of a series of machinations to destroy the 19th Route Army as the spearhead of Chinese resistance to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Resist! Resist! | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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