Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constitution is a massive document of 175 articles. It provides for three representative bodies. These are: 1) the Legislative Yuan, a lawmaking body elected by professional as well as geographic units...
Once the Assembly finished its job, Chiang could proceed with reorganization of the State Council and Executive Yuan, might promulgate the new constitution on New Year's Day. He would also be in a strong position for a final appeal to the Chinese Communists at Yenan...
...Benedict Arnold of the Chinese Revolution," Yuan Shih-kai became Provisional President of the Chinese Republic in March 1912. The next year he disrupted the Assembly called to draft a permanent constitution, outlawed the Kuomintang Party and established himself as dictator. In 1915 Yuan restored the monarchy with himself as Emperor, but was forced to renounce the throne a few months later...
During the war Japanese officialdom frowned on go as a time-waster. After it came off the blacklist, millions of fans stayed down in the dumps-the game was not the same without Chinese-born National Champion Wu Ching-yuan. Wu had become a convert of Aiko Nagashima, high priestess of the Jiwu cult of Buddhism, and she had said...
Government and the Communists. A Kuomintang party boss said the odds stood 49 for peace and 51 for war. A shade more optimistic, Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, rated...