Word: yat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time to Stop." Chou found the currents he wanted to swim with early in his life. Sun Yat-sen's democratic revolution against the crumbling Manchu dynasty was just getting under way when Chou (pronounced Joe) was born into a family of impecunious gentry...
...daily life he noted an "appealing imprecision. People wander around; daydream. They don't mince like Japanese, but amble as men in secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests. "It's like the Nixon Doctrine," his guide remarked dryly. "Asians to fight Asians...
After Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang revolution finally overthrew the corrupt Manchu empire in 1911, Chiang served as one of Sun's best young officers, then went to Moscow for further training. "I admired in those days the whole revolutionary attitude of the Communists," Chiang said later. "When I arrived in Russia, all my hopes about the revolution were blasted...
Died. T.V. Soong, 77, former Chinese Nationalist official and member of the fabled Soong "dynasty"; of food lodged in his windpipe; in San Francisco. The Harvard-educated son of a Shanghai Bible publisher, and wealthy brother-in-law of both Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, Soong was called the Alexander Hamilton of China for making economic reforms as Chiang's young Minister of Finance. Soong later rallied the support of Shanghai bankers for the Generalissimo in his 1927 power struggle with the Communists. But during World War II Soong cooperated with Chou En-lai in forging a Nationalist...