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Word: yuan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order of Chairman Mao Tze-tung and the Communist party Central Committee, a subsidy of a billion yuan will be used for pump-priming in communes and production brigades which are lagging...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Kennedy's Labor Bill Withstands Two Amendment Bids by Senate; Mao to Subsidize Red Communes | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

...Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint new bishops for Canton and Shanghai. When Bishop Li Tao-nan of Puichi was first ordered to consecrate bishops, he refused. But after two weeks of torture, he surrendered. Last April he officiated at the consecration of Tung Kwang-ching of Hankow and Yuan Wenhua of Wuchang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Schism in China | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Four times between March and December last year the Control Yuan, Nationalist China's legislative watchdog body, summoned Premier O.K. Yui to come before the Yuan to answer charges of waste in 15 government agencies. Four times Yui refused. When Yui rejected a fifth summons on the ground that, under the constitution, he does not have to answer to the Control Yuan, the legislators' pent-up frustration exploded. The Control Yuan formally voted to impeach the Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Restless Spirits | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...personal honesty and integrity. The vote did appear to have been aimed less at Yui personally than at the Kuomintang Party's tight control of government affairs. Last week, as Yui's Cabinet approved the draft of the defense that he must submit to the Judicial Yuan for a ruling in the case, the Kuomintang's Central Daily News loftily pronounced the impeachment "meaningless and without value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Restless Spirits | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Thanks a million yuan for "Masterpieces of Chinese Art." The reproductions were on marvelous paper that will hold up well in my collection of art clippings from TIME & LIFE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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