Word: yatsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice was that of Mme. Sun Yatsen. Tiny, spirited, inviolate, Mme. Sun lives in a three-story apartment house in Chungking, and emerges only rarely to make public statements. Last week, when she broke her silence, she voiced again the democratic conscience of China; once more she raised the dormant but still-vibrant national hopes of her late great husband, whose liberal program has been all but lost in the pressures of war under Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...guiding posts: 1) China must become the economic, political, cultural and military equal of other nations; 2) the Chinese in occupied areas must be rescued and the Japanese must be driven from all Chinese soil; 3) a nationally elected People's Congress, the final stage of Dr. Sun Yatsen's three phases of national development (revolution, education, self-government), must be established and vested with the powers now closely held by the Kuomintang...
...hand over his knobby, shaved head. He spoke as always, snapping out the long vowels and hissing sibilants of his native tongue with the impatience of rifle fire. It was fitting that he should speak now, at the weekly Sun Yat-sen memorial service. For Chiang Kaishek, like Sun Yatsen, realized that in the wild and mountainous provinces of the great Northwest, China had an undeveloped treasure house. More than that, it was the last link with the outside world and a refuge for Free China if Chinese and United Nations armies were ever disastrously defeated in Asia...
...Plans. All this was good news to the Chinese. So were reports of oil discoveries "beyond expectations" in Kansu province and of economic, political and military cooperation which would have pleased Sun Yatsen. China's first great republican leader envisioned the Northwest's potentially rich 1,950,754 sq. mi. (pop. 21,000,000) as a new home for millions of Chinese from overpopulated areas. His San Min Chu I (principles of free government) have been brought by war to southern provinces once considered a political hinterland. So now night the northwest provinces be woven into the pattern...
Skis and Chinese are a rare photographic combination. At Sun Valley, Idaho two members of an illustious family produced it-Pearl and Tsi Suon, grandchildren of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, grandniece and grandnephew of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...