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...emperors Shih Huang and Wu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Nanking, meanwhile, amid vain attempts at secrecy, Foreign Minister Wu Te-chen conferred separately with the U.S., British, French and Soviet ambassadors. His purpose was not made clear, but it was obvious that China was asking for international mediation of the-civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: When Headlines Cry Peace | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Wu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Hurrying home, Wang put his best troops, under trusted General Wu Hua-wen, on a line defending the capital's most vital points-the main airfield, the railroad station and the commercial district, all outside the old city wall. Suddenly, on the fourth day of battle, Wu turned traitor, led some 8,000 of his men over into the Communist lines. Tsinan's outer defenses collapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHINA: Province for a Poet | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Wu turned his coat? Some of his close relatives had been captured by the Communists last summer; he had recently received letters from them. Chinese believed that Wu had been "persuaded" by the letters to switch sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHINA: Province for a Poet | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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