Word: yi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Koreans trace their national history back 4,000 years. They say they were the first people to have a national flag (1,000 B.C.), an encyclopedia (circa 1405), a solar observatory, a printing press (1403), and an ironclad navy (1592), which, under redoubtable Admiral Yi Sun Sin, inflicted the only defeat on the Japanese fleet before...
Arrogant Japanizers tarred the Koreans' traditional white clothes, jailed them for "thought crime," poisoned their sovereign Yi Hyeung, deposed his dynasty. In 1919, in a remarkable display of mass passive patriotism, Koreans declared their independence. The Japanese retaliated with executions and the flogging of 11,000 demonstrators...
...Japanese withdrew in China, puppets tumbled right & left. One of them was Henry Pu Yi, ex-Emperor of the ex-state of Manchukuo; he was a Russian prisoner. Another was Inner Mongolia's roly-poly Prince Teh (full name Teh-mu-chu-keh-lung-lu-pu), whose arid realm is the shortest international high way between Soviet Siberia and Peking...
...Henry Pu Yi, just captured by the Russians, had further cause for sadness. The ex-Manchukuo puppet's collection of dolls was all smashed up by a bunch of Jap bullies who looted his palace, the Moscow radio reported...
They looked good to his father, who packed Dong off to Hong Kong's Lingnan Academy to learn about art. The headmaster, who had studied in Paris, took Dong under his wide-sleeved wing, taught him both Oriental Hsieh-yi ("to draw a conception") and occidental Hsieh-cheng ("to draw reality"). Dong inclined toward Hsieh-cheng...