Word: yat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long conference table beneath a portrait of Sun Yat Sen while Mr. Lee, director of Boston's branch of the Kuomintang, was explaining the difference between October First and October Tenth. "First of October is Communist Independence Day, like May First in Russia. Nobody in Boston celebrates. October Tenth is the real Chinese Independence Day, when we had a Republic. It is just like Fourth of July. We have parades and speeches and feasts, just like in America." He thought a moment, then added, "Also we celebrate the Fourth...
...been seriously infected with the propaganda germs spread daily from Peking: "America is Public Enemy No. 1. From billboards and posters, through the press, film and radio, in incessant speeches and slogans, the U.S. is reviled as an imperialist and an aggressor. Even the mild-mannered Madame Sun Yat-sen chuckled with glee when drawing our attention to a cartoon depicting Dean Acheson . . . as a 'bacterial bug.'" Moraes noted that Chinese who speak English with an American accent are nervous about where they got their education; he met one Columbia-educated Chinese interpreter who, while favoring American-style...
...When it surged forward, the judge shouted: "No! No! Don't beat them yet." Two of the nuns were sentenced to five years' imprisonment; the others were ordered expelled from China. Then the five were paraded, to be mocked and spat upon, through the streets of Sun Yat-sen's city...
...director of military training for the Imperial Chinese army. In Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...
Technician of Order. When Wu returned to China in 1926, Sun Yat-sen was dead. Vast areas of the country were bitterly contested by warlords with their private armies and by Nationalist revolutionaries. The best of the Nationalists, Chiang Kaishek, Sun's disciple, set out from Canton at the head of a revolutionary army on his famous Northern Expedition to quell the warlords. Young Nationalist K. C. Wu tried to join Chiang's army. He was rejected with the explanation: "You are too educated...