Word: tsai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who have lost government jobs because of a Communist "economy" wave in administration, the Communists had coined a new euphemism. What Chinese used to call bluntly tsai yuan (cutting personnel) has become ching chien ("considered simplification" of office personnel...
...China's farmers, the time of the annual shui tsai (water calamity) had come again. The muddy Yangtze, gorged with weeks of heavy rains, was spreading over more than 1,000 miles of south central China's rice bowl. To the north, "China's Sorrow," the great Yellow River, raced angrily over the broad Shantung flatlands...
...Chinese tragedy that distant Sinkiang had been misruled, from 1928 until 1944, by notorious Warlord Sheng Shih-tsai. Nominally as the proconsul of the Chinese Central Government, General Sheng administered a private terror that brought death to at least 50,000 people in 16 years...
Shanghai Movie Producer Wu Hsin-tsai had a brilliant idea. He would produce a comedy about barbers; Shanghai's 50,000 barbers would flock to it; they would talk about it in their barbershops. If each mentioned it to ten customers, box-office returns at $10,000 CN per seat (about 20? U.S.) would be incalculable...
...cheng (a 16-stringed zither) that he played was as old as China's Great Wall. In Manhattan's China House last week, a Yale student named Liang Tsai-ping played centuries-old music on a ku-cheng that had come down to him through three generations. His selections (from long-forgotten composers)-Flowers on the Variegated Brocade, Winter Birds Sporting over the Stream-were no more difficult to tell apart than Debussy's impressions...