Word: yi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reactionary enemies" (whom he hopes to clean up next after the bandits) President Chiang meant the new self-styled Chinese Government at Canton (TIME, June 8). Its most august member is wizened Tang Shao-yi, in 1912 First Premier of the Chinese Republic...
...arrived the first batch of Chinese government students in the U. S., among them young Tang Shao-yi. In 1912 Tang became First Premier of the Chinese Republic. Last week venerable Tang arrived in Canton, lent by his presence an air of respectability to the successful revolution there (TIME, May 11). Canton vernacular papers told their readers: "Tang Shao-yi is a personal friend of Hoover Herbert,* President of the United States of America. . . . Their friendship began 30 years ago when Hoover Herbert was a young engineer in China...
...White House last week Hoover Herbert and Stimson Henry Lewis decided, and the U. S. press was so advised, that they did not wish to recognize Friend Tang Shao-yi and his friends in Canton as the new Government of South China. Such it was, however, in fact. Canton celebrated the fact as New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras. Flag-decked arches were put up. Cantonese, the southern excitables of China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this...
...Protestants in China to form the Church of Christ in China (communicants now 120,000). Dissident Presbyterians keep up the old church organization. Presbyterians are the most potent Protestants in China. It happens now that both the Chinese head of the Church of Christ in China, Dr. Cheng-Ching-yi, and the Caucasian head, Dr. Raymond Kepler, are Presbyterians...
...heart wrung by reports of starvation and suffering, "Emperor" Hsuan Tung who now modestly calls himself Mr. Henry P'u-yi searched for a famine relief gift among the remnants of the Manchu Treasure which now comprise his small fortune. Rummaging, he found some antique Ch'ien Lung sables, perfectly preserved, fabulously prized in China. Turning his jewel box upside down, generous Henry counted out 800 pearls from the dwindling hoard. By a trusty messenger the Imperial pearls and Imperial sables were despatched "with Mr. Henry P'u-yi's compliments" to the chief Peking agency...