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General Tu studied his father's History well. In 1945, he put ancient Chinese tactics to good use to unseat (on the Generalissimo's orders) the old warlord of Yunnan Province, Lung Yun. Tu told Warlord Lung that Nationalist troops would merely be holding maneuvers in Yunnan's capital. Then he surrounded Lung's troops and disarmed them. When Lung was moved to a face-saving position as chief of the National Military Council in Chungking, he demanded punishment for upstart General Tu. The Generalissimo obligingly "banished" Tu to the Northeast China Command to direct...
According to the Boston Fireman's Band, marathoner Yun Bok Su wasn't the only foreigner to steal the local spotlight at Boston's Patriots Day celebrations. Traditional parade performers, the fireman's band smouldered with rage when the University music-makers got George Curley...
Only once in his life had Sergeant Third Class Liu Yun ever worn leather shoes. That was as a Szechwan peasant boy in the year of the bountiful crops. His father had made enough money that season to buy him a pair of shiny black shoes. Liu could still remember how smooth and bright they felt on his stubble-tough soles...
Deposed Dragon. First he moved against China's strong war lord, one-eyed General Lung Yun, the rascally "old dragon" of Yunnan. By gun and guile, Lung had ruled that strategic southwestern province of China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland...
...happy balance between individualistic capitalism and proletarian communism" is the ultimate aim of all Chinese revolutionary efforts today, Chi-yun Chang of the National University of Chekiang declared last night at the Institute of Geographical Exploration in the last of four Monday lectures on "China in a New World...