Word: yangchow
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...triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking the mood of scholarly repose. On the painting he wrote: "Miss Li Tuan-tuan of the House of Shan Ho is indeed a walking flower. In spite of all the rich men in Yangchow, she has given her love to a poor scholar." The House of Shan Ho housed the prostitutes of the day. ¶ Ch'iu Ying worked mainly in the painstaking style that dates back to the T'ang Dynasty's General Li. He was scorned for his meticulous style...
Battles. Most important of the Chinese engagements, last week, were two serious clashes near Yangchow. Northern troops commanded by Sun Chuan-fang, recent ly driven from Shanghai (TIME, March 7), turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
...special medical meeting to be held in the Amphitheatre of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The speakers will be President Eliot, Dr. Francis W. Peabody '03, member of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation; Dr. Adrian S. Taylor, of Yangchow, China; Dr. Harvey Howard, of Canton, China; and Dr. Alden R. Hoover, of Tala, Turkey. Medical students and physicians are particularly invited...
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