Word: yatsen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then the seven principal district "generals" administering Nationalist territory pledged allegiance to Chiang Kaishek, declaring him the true political descendant of the late, revered Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic." Only three district generals repudiated General Chiang, stigmatized him as a traitor...
Returning from exile after the Chinese revolution, Wang became the political right hand man of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of the Nationalist Government, just as Chiang became Dr. Sun's most trusted general. Indeed only ten months ago, Wang was Chairman* of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Government. But he was ousted by the Nationalist radicals and retired to France just before the Nationalist army set out from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) on its successful campaign to capture all South China. How did Wang return from France so dramatically last week...
With the zeal typical of a converted sinner Chiang threw himself into active fighting in the cause of the great Dr. Sun Yatsen, late "Father of the Chinese Republic." Dr. Sun was at this time experiencing reverses, having been driven from Canton, his capital, by his own War Minister. Soon Chiang Kai-shek with 10,000 men had materially assisted in driving the traitor War Minister out of Canton, and back to his walled stronghold Waichow, a city deemed impregnable...
...decided that Chiang should be the sun to rise out of his own setting. They were believed never to have met; but when the young general entered, Dr. Sun rose dramatically to his feet, scanned carefully the face of Chiang Kaishek, and exclaimed: "Ah! Here is the second Sun Yatsen. He shall one day take my place! . . . Explain your project, Oh young and rising...
...exemplary, mouselike little Chung-ling Soong turned out to have been getting letters and reading newspapers to some purpose. Her serious, fragile nature (and perhaps the fact that she never uses paint or powder) brought her the love of that high-souled patriotic statesman, the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic...