Word: wuchang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seattle landed Professor Theodore Hobbie, returning last week from his occupancy of the chair of mathematics at Boone University, Wuchang, directly across the Yangtze River from Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) where Chinese caused Britons to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession. Said Eye-witness Hobbie: "We had no idea that the disturbance in China was so serious until we picked up the American newspapers. . . . "Shortly before I left Wuchang a representative body of our students approached our Dean, Mr. Wei, and stated that they had been commanded by the students' union to make certain demands from...
...Established originally at Wuchang, across the river from Hankow...
...name that the young Nationalist Government has recently conquered the Southern half of China (TIME, Dec. 13). To the Nationalists it is enough that little Mrs. Sun bears the name of their great dead leader. Today she resides at Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, drives about in a Dodge sedan, and is the living symbol of a great movement, Nationalism...
Bluff and Bruises. Hankow or "Mouth of Han," takes its name from the great river Han which flows into the greater Yangtze. The city lies at the confluence, with Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, just across the Yangtze. Daily for months the Nationalist Government has kept its agents busy telling the Chinese at Hankow the axiomatic truth that if they would all rise against the foreigners, the foreigners would have to sail away, leaving $60,000,000 worth of property behind. Last week this new and surprising thought flared up in a chattering mob of Chinamen who had believed since...
Students adherent to the new South China Government at Wuchang crossed the Yangtze to Hangkow last week and there propagandized most violently the local American Wesleyan Mission School. While pious female Chinese Wesleyan converts were attending their annual holiday entertainment, the students forced their way into the hall, climbed up on the stage and spoke in terms which were to the Wesleyans unquestionably blasphemous...