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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Chinese drunk convicted in Manhattan courts for a century, Chang Kong thriftily preferred two days in jail to a $5 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Yangtze near Ichang (in free China, 485 miles upriver from Hankow), Japanese bombers returning from killing natives sank two foreign vessels, the Jardine, Matheson & Co. river boats Kiawo and Hsin Chang Wo, and narrowly missed the river gunboat Gannet. British naval authorities suspected a new Panay incident-a test of what Britain would do in answer to direct, unprovoked attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bare Fist, Gloved Fist | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Last week in Manhattan's Chinatown, eminent Chinese, art lovers, sympathizers gathered in Lichee Wan's Restaurant to pay respects to an aging and ailing little thin-bearded man with a quick smile, bright eyes and fleet gestures-Chang Shan-tse of Chungking. His mission: to raise money to buy medical supplies for beleaguered China. In a garret studio, from 6 a. m. until nightfall he could be found feverishly painting $$o-up duplicates of water colors whose originals had brought $1,500 in China. Their soft mauves, greens and umbers, their economically limned designs of rocky landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tiger Painter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Chungking and when they flew away they left many of Chang's people dead behind them-and all of Chang's tigers. Chang left Chungking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tiger Painter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...China, Roar Like These Tigers panel which last spring crowded 3,000 visitors into the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, helped bring its creator a decoration from President Lebrun of France. Its 21 down-leaping tigers represent China's war-awakened provinces. Of their models, said Chang: "It is just as well about the tigers' dying. I am an old man and tigers need a strong master; hereafter I paint from memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tiger Painter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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