Word: yatsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prompt support of grey-goateed Ma came passionate, pockmarked Yang Ti-chung, a Western-clad tribesman of the 71st generation from Kweichow. Yang said he represented 50 million Yi and Miao people, almost half the population of Sikang, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Yunnan and Hunan.* Yang invoked the shade of Sun Yatsen, also threatened withdrawal...
...colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...
Lady Cripps. head of the British United Aid to China Fund, reached Nanking with her young daughter last week, bringing British good will, good works and goods, including a 24-piece dessert service for Madame Chiang Kaishek, and a 40-piece porcelain tea service for Madame Sun Yatsen. The Chinese responded with an enthusiastic welcome, including a poem in her honor by Ambassador to Britain Cheng Tien...
Last week Mme. Sun Yatsen, elder sister of Madame Chiang, broke a long silence on politics with a public statement that advanced the possibility of hellzapoppin China. Said she: "In recent years . . . I have avoided political controversy . . . [but] today we are threatened by a civil war into which the reactionaries hope to draw America, thus involving the whole world. . . . I feel it is necessary to speak. . . . The present crisis is not a question of who wins-the Kuomintang or the Communists. It is a question of the Chinese people. . . . The time of the Kuomintang tutelage is over. . . . A coalition government...
...moment U.S. officers appeared, Chinese officials took down Soviet-style portraits of Lenin and Sun Yatsen, substituted Truman and Attlee. They did not remove the posters of Stalin and Chiang...