Word: tzu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone Again. Police whisked him off to a hospital, where he was identified as Hsu Tzu-tsai, chief of Red China's nine-man delegation to the International Congress for Welding Technique at the nearby University of Delft. He had a fractured skull. "This man has been maltreated," said the examining doctor, "possibly even tortured...
Business & Pleasure. Chinese Cholon, which means "Great Market," is a six-sq.-mi. enclave of Asian enterprise. In its sprawling, pagodalike marketplace, hunks of meat hang in bloody rows under swarms of flies; withered crones stir their black iron stewpots with k'uai-tzu (chopsticks) while spidery men stagger past under shoulder poles bending to the weight of oil and rice-wine buckets. Over all beats the cacophony of commerce: the steamy hiss of sidewalk cooking kiosks, the piping cry of the noodle vendors, the clash of cymbals advertising the approach of the blind Chinese masseurs who ply their...
...even if they number "as many as the sesame seeds in three baskets." Peking's most formidable source of subversion is the 15 million "overseas" Chinese, who dominate much of the trade and commerce of non-Communist Asia. In Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and Burma, their hsiao-tzu (literally, "little groups"), of three to 22 members, perform subversive chores wherever possible...
...U.S.A.F. plane in which they were passengers was shot down in 1952 over North Korea (according to the U.S.), over Red China (according to the Red Chinese). Downey is serving a life sentence, Fecteau 20 years, both on a charge of espionage, in Peking's Tsao Lan-tzu prison. ¶Businessman Hugh Francis Redmond Jr., 41, arrested in 1951 in Shanghai, subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment, also on an espionage charge. He is in a Shanghai jail...
...give the Kuomintang its first real opposition (TIME, Sept. 19), the authorities apparently decided to arrest him first on sedition charges and then see what proof they could find. They also arrested his business manager, Ma Chih-su, 38, and his former accountant and secretary, quiet, moody Liu Tzu-ying, 54. Without waiting for the trial, the government's Central Daily News laid out the government's case. Secretary Liu had confessed, reported the News, that before Nanking fell in 1949 he was chairman of the city's Communist Party headquarters. Subsequently he decided...