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China's deposed Emperor, weak-eyed, spidery-limbed Mr. Henry Pu Yi, was not compelled last week to recognize famed Concubine Shu Fei as his "wife" or to answer her suit for "divorce" (TIME...
Nine years is a long time to be the concubine of any man, especially of the deposed Emperor of China, weak-eyed and sapless Mr. Henry Pu Yi. Last week pretty Shu Fei, that Imperial concubine known euphemistically as "The Empress of the Eastern Court," was the sensation of all China. She had run away from Mr. Pu. She had hired lawyers. Terming her concubinage "marriage" she presumptuously sued for a "divorce...
...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...
...Presidential campaign against "Hoover's Chinese record" venerable Tang refuted these charges, testified that in China young Engineer Herbert Hoover was an honorable man. Last week the President presumably saw in the New York Herald Tribune (No. 1 Republican newsorgan) a message addressed to himself by Tang Shao-yi, commencing, "My dear friend...
...voice teacher from Peiping armed himself with an array of musical instruments and stage costumes, journeyed to Tientsin, there to instruct Hsuan Tung, onetime Manchu Emperor of China, in the art of operatics. Since his expulsion from Peiping seven years ago, Hsuan has lived modestly as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," has amused himself with a variety of hobbies including cycling, tennis, skating...