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Revolutionary soldiers drag their commander, Li Yuan-hung out from under his wife's bed. The year is 1911. Li protests. He is loyal to the Manchu Emperor. No! He will not lead the soldiers as a unit in the great revolution!! But then, on second thought, he does...
...year is 1916 and Li, now in his second term as vice president of the Chinese Republic, takes the last hurdle to power, when death comes to President Yuan Shinkai...
...contrast to that flippant view, which nonetheless expresses the esteem of Europeans for Professor Dewey, is another statement. It was made by one who is per-haps the greatest of living Chinese savants, Dr. Fai Yuan-pei. The occasion was the birth anniversary of Confucius in 1920. Dr. Fai, acting as Rector of the National University at Peking, was presenting an honorary Ph.D. degree to John Dewey...
...China to that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang Shao-yi was sent to Washington as special Ambassador of the Manchu Emperor. Later he served as Prime Minister of the Government at Peking and as Minister of Finance under the Cantonese Government...
Chinese who cannot but deplore the present political disintegration of their country, wished last week that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will...