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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business." You peer inside a tobacco and cake shop on Nankwan Street. It is a cubicle of dried mud and sticks, windowless, papered with yellowing sheets of the Liberation Daily. Proprietor Yang Huan-chang, a snaggle-toothed elder of 60, greets you as "Comrade," invites you in for a smoke...
George Jaszi and Pei-Kang Chang, who received Ph.D.s in 1946, each won a $500 David P. Wells Prize in Economics yesterday for a thesis in the field...
Jaszi's prize-winning thesis discussed the subject of "The concept of National Income and National Product with Special Reference to Government Transactions," while Chang wrote on "Agriculture and Industrialization...
...ritual dramas and folk plays, heard scratchy Ch'ing Dynasty blues and a half-dozen pieces by a "classical orchestra"-an ensemble that was ancient when Confucius was young. Though Broadway-farers made little sense out of the dancelike dramas, they liked the sword dance by Gardenia Chang, the gaudy plumage, rooster-strutting and extravagant simpers...
...straggled in. The General had invited them some time ago for afternoon movies and ice cream; he would not break this date even for affairs of state. Between meetings with the press and a long list of callers, including T. V. Soong and Chou En-lai's secretary, Chang Wen-chin, the General looked in on the moppets as they disposed of a gallon or so of vanilla. That evening he drove to the Gimo's again for family dinner...