Word: tzu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Courses are getting too easy and the university is in a sad plight. Let us by all means have our Chuang Tzu, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, and Po Chu-i unadulterated. With respectful kowtow, John...
...Chiang, who "wears the pants" (see cut, p. 18) in the Chinese Government to a greater extent than any woman since the death of the dread Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, wrote this hospitalized in Nanking after her car had skidded last week into a ditch on the Shanghai road, constantly traveled by herself and the Generalissimo. "Is it not the irony of fate that I nearly met death by an act of God," wrote pious Mme Chiang who converted her husband to Christianity, "while the Japanese have been trying to assassinate me by bombs ever since the beginning...
...Chinese people against the humiliations imposed by Japan, has worked out so nicely that discerning Frank Hedges, Far-Easter for the Washington Post, recently was able to report that Dictator Chiang now heads "the strongest Central Government in that country since the death of the Empress Dowager, Tzu Hsi"*and has "succeeded in uniting the Chinese people in a way that has not been known for centuries." Japanese suspicions of China are always dire and last week Tokyo commentators opined that Dictator Chiang can only be taking his present strong line if he has recently secured from Dictator Stalin...
...remember the hunting lodge. His benefactress, the great Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, had fled there as a young mother with her cowardly, dying Emperor, in 1860, when British and French troops marched on Peking. When Revolution blew Pu Yi, a six-year-old boy, off the throne of the Manchus in 1912, he was locked in the Winter Palace at Peiping. He did not enjoy Manchu pomp, preferred his tennis court and bicycle...
...Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (meaning Compassionate and Fortunate), was the last great sitter on China's Dragon Throne. Born into a noble clan still well-known in Peiping, she was chosen for the household of a dissolute Emperor, wangled herself up from fourth to second rank and produced his only son, a feat in itself. A slim little woman with lively black eyes, an implacable fury when crossed, otherwise fond of argument, company and flowers, she effectively ruled China from 1861 when she was 27 until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three...