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...Yat-sen's revolution hit China before Mei-ling hit Wellesley, and her only excitement about it was what she caught from her sister Ching-ling (who later married Dr. Sun). At Wellesley her favorite course was Arthurian Romance. She joined Tau Zeta Epsilon, spoke a languid Southern accent, and was sometimes vivacious, sometimes somber, always neat. Professor Annie K. Tuell, with whom she lived, says: "She kept up an awful thinking about everything." She used to speak eloquently of China's contributions to civilization, and regretted Western neglect of them. But she wrote a friend: "The only...
...Ambassador to Washington, has devoted her life to the expression and defense of new ideas. At eight she tore the painful bandages from her feet; at 14 she bolted a parentally arranged marriage with the son of the Governor of Canton; at 17 she joined Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries, smuggled bombs for the assassination of Manchu officials. After a French education she became China's first woman lawyer and judge...
...Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang held the clay of history in its hands last week. It had a chance to start molding China into the beautiful shape which Sun Yat-sen imagined. Instead, it fixed prices against rice and salt...
...Party Purpose. As the great Sun Yat-sen defined it, the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) is the trustee of Chinese sovereignty until the people are educated to conduct their own affairs. China's Government is for all practical purposes a one-party Government, and the Kuomintang is the party...