Word: wen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poem, titled Rhyme Prose on Literature by Wen Fu and translated by Achilles Fang, describes the feelings of a poet when he creates. In spite of the loss of rhyme, and perhaps meaning as well, through translation, the imagery is fresh and at times brilliant. Mr. Fu has made a careful, thorough exploration of his subject and has conveyed the experiences of his art in a clear, unfaltering manner...
...infected tens of thousands of supposedly hard-core party members. Reported Po Ipo, head of a kind of a Communist Kefauver committee called the Austerity Inspection Committee: "More than 1,670 corrupt persons have been exposed in 27 government agencies." Identified as top grafters: Communications Chief Chang Wen-en, Secret Police Chief Sung Te-kuei, Tientsin's Party Regional Headquarters Chief Chang Tse-shan...
...Communists reacted angrily. Last week Canton's Communist radio flatly announced: "Hong Kong is part of Chinese territory." Boasted Playwright Szema Wen-shen, deported chairman of the so-called Red Study Group: "We shall return soon to eliminate all reactionary elements...
...sentimental sense of loss. Before Pearl Harbor, plaster casts had been made of the ancient bones and shipped to a number of Western museums. The cast of a female Peking cranium, fondly known as Suzanne, was built up into a composite skull. Then, early last spring, Dr. Pei Wen-chung, one of the men who found remnants of Peking man in a limestone cave at Choukoutien, sounded off in the Chinese Communist newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The Japanese had indeed captured the fossils, he said: they had been shipped to Tokyo, later seized by American forces and shipped...
...North Koreans quickly counterattacked, whereupon "American imperialists," coming to the aid of their "Syngman Rhee puppets," drove into North Korea. At that point Chinese "volunteers" entered the war, quickly pushed U.S. forces back to the 38th parallel, whereupon the U.S. decided to sue for peace. Summed up the Communist Wen Wei Pao of Hong Kong: "The United States has suffered utter defeat. Although she tries to pose as the victor, it should be noted that she has to conduct negotiations at the time and place chosen by Korea and China...