Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The European imperialists regarded them as rivals. The Spanish in the Philippines were nearly wiped out before they rallied to slaughter 23,000 Chinese at Manila in 1603. At midcentury, a Chinese exile and pirate named Koxinga drove the Dutch from Formosa; later the Dutch retaliated by wholesale murders of...
The Hard Workers. Britain's entry into the Orient brought new swarms of Chinese to Nanyang as indentured coolies to work in tin mines and on plantations, to load ships and build roads and carry burdens. Each new trading city-Penang, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong-became heavily Chinese. As...
Red China has played it both ways. In the first flush of conquering the mainland, the Reds championed the Overseas Chinese and even allotted them 30 seats in the National People's Congress at Peking. The hua-chiao were called "the endeared children of the Chinese nation" and were...
Then the love affair palled. Red China decided that the Southeast Asian governments were more important than the Overseas Chinese and. wooing the Afro-Asian nations at Bandung. China's Premier Chou En-lai urged that Chinese abroad "be loyal to the countries they live in." The disenchantment was...
This year the Southeast Asian governments that Red China has been wooing began to grow nervous about Peking's brutal behavior. They were frightened by Tibet, worried by Laos, and depressed by Chinese belligerency on India's northern borders. In their fear of new Red aggression, they viewed...