Word: yung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being one of the richest men in China into bankruptcy when Chinese looted and burned his properties, believing him to be pro-Japanese. Philanthropist Lo headed the recently organized Shanghai Civic Association, suspected of being a Japanese-inspired group which wanted to make him mayor. Another of its members, Yung Tsung-ching, "The Flour King of China," said last week: "One cannot ride a two-headed horse and get anywhere. It is tragic, but true, that China today is virtually without a Government. During times like these citizens must fearlessly take charge of the situation in order to reduce want...
...land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully for Yen Hsi-shan, Shansi's "Model Governor," and Han Fu-chu: Shantung's greedy Governor...
...literature, printing, and bookbinding are to be found among its volumes. Among the most valuable of these recently received are two books are the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia over complied in the history of mankind, done by a commission of 2000 scholars at the behest of the emperor Yung--lo, of the Ming dynasty, who reigned from 1403 to 1424. Only one set was printed; it contained 22,211 books bound in 11,095 volumes, or over 500,000 pages. Most of it was destroyed by the great fire in Peking in 1900 when the allied troops captured...
...will fight to the Death!" General Yung Chen told correspondents. They, remembering the recent headlong flight of Chinese General Ma after he promised to fight to the Death (TIME, Nov. 30), skeptically remarked to each other, "Oh. yeah...