Word: yatsen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first time in a thousand years, great masses of people in China are singing together. The lusty, patriotic songs they sing sound much like those of the Western world. Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Chinese Republic in 1912, stirred up many enthusiasms but not mass music. China did not get a national anthem until 1924, and that one never caught on. But the Chinese did pick up a Western round-Frère Jacques-to which they sang such sentiments as Down with the militarists, Down with the war lords, Down with oppression...
...manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case, Mr. Chou was knocking at the door of politics). By 1938, he had swung over to the opposition camp of Wang Ching-wei. By last week...
...ideas and ideals which had once been formidable forces in the development of New China began to crumble too. No man in the Chinese capital would speak for democracy. Chinese officials found that China's George Washington, Sun Yatsen, had never advocated "capitalist democracy." Theoreticians repeated their belief that China would have a "special kind" of democracy. Abandoned by the West, China was abandoning the West...
...demonstration of national solidarity at Chengtu, China, three famed Soong sisters marched side by side through the streets in peasant hats while Chengtu stared in admiration: Mmes. H. H. Kung, wife of China's Finance Minister, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Chinese republic...
...various times in his life Wang Ching-wei pretended devotion for the patriarch of Chinese revolution, Dr. Sun Yatsen, deserted him, later worked for him again, watched lovingly over his deathbed; studied in Japan on Imperial Scholarships awarded by the Manchu dynasty, tried to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent; praised Russian Communism and opposed a young rival named Chiang Kai-shek because Chiang was such a conservative, then abandoned Communism and joined Chiang in condemnation of Japan, finally deserted Chiang to become Japan's best friend in China...