Word: yatsen
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...Right away," Trie says. He goes to his office and picks up a shopping bag full of checks that are all made out to BILL CLINTON FOR GOVERNOR OR ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY. They are signed with what appear to be Asian names--Sun Yatsen, for instance, and Charlie Chan. Returning to the dining room, he shoots an ingratiating smile in the Governor's direction and pours the checks out on to the table...
...first, there was a row of armchairs with snowy antimacassars and little tables set for tea. The occupants turned out to be top members of the Chinese Establishment: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), Foreign Minister Huang Hua, Vice Premier Fang Yi and Mme. Sun Yatsen, who is in her late 80s. During the intermission, Deng held a reception at which he said in effect that he did not know much about music but he knew what he liked: anything that promoted friendship. After the concert, he led his tea party to the stage and shook hands...
...loose-jointed, perhaps like the U.S. itself, that the reader is happy to wade through balderdash to the next bit of good storytelling or good sense. Meanwhile, what about this name change? Why Morgan? Why not Carnegie or Rockefeller? Why not Svensen or Von Humboldt or Verrazanno or Sun Yatsen? Well, Morgan explains, he threw away his first name, Sanche-a contraction of St. Charles -and scrambled the letters of De Gramont. Among the anagrams that resulted were Dr. Montage, R.D. Megaton and Ted Morgan. Morgan, he felt, was someone you would lend your car to. Dogs and small children...
Groups of mourners, some sobbing, bowed ritually before a flower-bedecked altar set up at the presidential residence four miles from the capital. Then at midweek, Chiang's body was carried along a 15-mile procession route past an estimated 500,000 people to the Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall in downtown Taipei. There, to the accompaniment of piped-in elegiac music, thousands walked past the open coffin. The Generalissimo's body was clothed in a black Chinese gown with the red sash of the republic's highest order across his chest; his face, thin and white, bore...
Born the son of a small-town salt merchant in Chekiang province on China's central coast, Chiang trained as a soldier, spoke like a revolutionary, and seemed destined for power. His climb began with an introduction, through a friend, to Sun Yatsen, the zealous revolutionary whose nationalistic movement brought down the already doddering Manchu empire in 1911. Cadet Chiang, a 24-year-old student at a military school in Japan, rushed home to join Sun's fledgling revolution. Chiang rose steadily through the military ranks of Sun's Canton-based Kuomintang (Nationalist Party...