Word: xueliang
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...became her husband's interpreter, confidant and chief propagandist. Not only did she try to save his soul (by converting him from paganism to Christianity), she also helped save his life. In 1936, on an inspection tour in Xi'an, Chiang was detained by troops of disaffected warlord Zhang Xueliang. Madame Chiang flew to the rescue and challenged Zhang so eloquently that he released his captive and agreed to return to Nanking as a prisoner of the Chiangs. Madame Chiang then devoted her energies to tidying up her disheveled country. In 1934 she joined her husband in launching...
...became her husband's interpreter, confidante and chief propagandist. Not only did she try to save his soul (by converting him from paganism to Christianity), she also helped save his life. In 1936, on an inspection tour in Xi'an, Chiang was detained by troops of disaffected warlord Zhang Xueliang. Mei-ling flew to the rescue and challenged Zhang so eloquently that he released his captive and agreed to return to Nanjing as a prisoner of the Chiangs. Mei-ling then devoted her energies to tidying up her disheveled country...
...local mandarins who still wield immeasurable power. It's at the county level that taxation and police matters are decided. And although county councils are technically elected, the slates are carefully prepared and "the Communist Party almost always finds a way to assert control over them," says Ding Xueliang, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology who researches local governments...
DIED. ZHANG XUELIANG, 100, Chinese warlord; in Honolulu. In December 1936, in an event now known as the Xian Incident, he sent his troops to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek, releasing him two weeks later when Chiang promised to work with the communists to battle Japan. The promise resulted in a decade of cooperation that positioned the communists to conquer the entire Chinese mainland in 1949. Zhang spent the next 55 years under house arrest, mostly in Taiwan, but his reputation as a patriot grew. As democracy arrived in Taiwan in the early 1990s, he was given increasing freedom and began...