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...athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north China. He picked the growing Nationalist movement as the coming power in China, gave it money and support. His nemesis was wily Old Chang Tso-lin of Manchuria, captor of Peiping in 1926, always an enemy of the Soviet. Leo Karakhan was recalled to Moscow, but in no disgrace. Stalin knew how near he had come to succeeding...
Shades of Chang. Among the few defunct persons who are kept and will long remain in China's memory is Young Marshal Chang's dread, great father, Old Chang Tso-lin. Self-made, he rose from despised cooliehood through common banditry & murder to become the ruler of Manchuria. Capturing Peking in 1926 he made himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent...
Basic are two conclusions: 1) that Manchuria is a land "which China and foreign powers have always regarded as an integral part of China under Chinese sovereignty"† 2) that Manchuria has traditionally enjoyed local autonomy, notably when ruled by the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin, but "the independence proclaimed by Marshal Chang Tso-lin at different times never meant that either he or the people of Manchuria wished to be separated from China. His armies did not invade China as if it were a foreign country, but merely as participants in the civil...
...disputed revenues go to Governor Han of Shantung, but he does not get Chefoo. It passes into the hands of the so-called North Chinese Navy which has held Tsingtao for some time and belongs to Marshal Chang Jr., son of the late, great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso...
...throughout China as "The Young Mar-shal," Chang Hsueh-liang. He is the deposed warlord of Manchuria and, until last week, ruler of Peiping and the surrounding province. Last week destiny caught up with him and with the rest of China. Chang Hsueh-liang is the son of Chang Tso-lin, one of the most picturesque Chinese characters to emerge since the death of that grand old lady, the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi. Chang Tso-lin was a bandit who made himself master of Manchuria before the breakup of the Empire in 1911, and then developed streaks of patriotism...