Word: yat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patriot who spent her life fighting for the freedom of China and the emancipation of women, became China's first woman lawyer, wife of Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. (1942-46); of cancer; in Los Angeles. At 17 Madame Wei left home to join Sun Yat-sen's exiled Kuomintang Party in Japan, returned to help plot the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. She carried secret messages and bombs in a suitcase, held revolutionary meetings in her own home, even though her father was a prominent figure in the government. As a member...
...China the government chairmanship has been vacant since Mao Tse-tung stepped down in December (while hanging on to his all-powerful chairmanship of the party). In the rumor mills of Hong Kong the favored candidate to succeed him is Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), 68-year-old widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, and sister of Madame Chiang Kaishek. Though not a member of the Communist Party, Madame Soong has often been trotted out to endorse Red policies. Long regarded by many an overseas Chinese as a cultured, sincere woman, she is both admired...
...joint communique issued at the end of Dulles' visit: "The Government of the Republic of China considers that the restoration of freedom to its people on the mainland is its sacred mission [and that] the principal means of successfully achieving its mission is the implementation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, and not the use of force."* Free China spokesmen later insisted that this declaration did not bind Chiang to hold back if a Hungary-type uprising broke out on the mainland. For the U.S.'s part, Dulles explicitly recognized...
...Chiang's immediate response was to announce that he rejected the appeal "firmly, vigorously and unequivocally.") In Taipei last week Chiang Kai-shek told crowds celebrating "Double Ten"-the Oct. 10 anniversary of the foundation in 1911 of Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Republic-that the cease-fire was just another piece of Communist "political treachery." But in Warsaw the U.S. pressed the unyielding Chinese Communist bargainers for an extension of the ceasefire, and at week's end Peking announced that it had decided to keep the guns silent for another 14 days...
...Went Wrong? Chiang's diagnosis of why China fell to Communism - and why the rest of the world is threatened -can be summed up in one phrase: peaceful coexistence. Carefully, Chiang spells out the tortuous story from the day the Communists first lodged themselves like parasites within Sun Yat-sen's National Revolution to the time of the Japanese invasion which the Communists exploited to consolidate for further civil war, down to the moment when, after decades of war and chaos, "finally, the people lost their will to fight Communism...