Word: chenge
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...None So Poor ..." As a friend, inspired by British generosity to China through the United Aid to China Fund, Cheng had once composed a poem in honor of the fund's president, Lady Cripps...
...black Buick sedan drew up before Britain's Foreign Office in Whitehall. Out stepped Dr. Cheng Tien-hsi, Nationalist China's urbane and scholarly ambassador, summoned to hear a judgment from His Britannic Majesty's Government...
...entered the high-ceilinged office of youthful (39) Minister of State Hector McNeil. The Briton fingered his necktie in awkward embarrassment, choked up as he began to read a formal note announcing Britain's recognition of Communist China (see below) and the dismissal of the Nationalist Chinese envoy. Cheng interrupted with a gentle gesture of gnarled ivory-hued hands. "We can talk of business later," he said. "Let us first talk as friends...
Poetry came to Cheng's mind again as he and McNeil chain-smoked each other's cigarettes-the Chinese offering American Lucky Strikes from a woven-grass case. Between puffs, Cheng sadly recalled how once it was the Western fashion to praise Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China for resisting the Japanese. What was it Shakespeare's Mark Antony had said over murdered Caesar...
...Governor Wu is busy trying to win the loyalty of Formosa's 6,500,000 people, most of whom dislike the Chinese, Nationalist or Communist. To win friends among Formosa's hard-working peasants, Wu is pressing for further land reform. Wu's predecessor, General Chen Cheng, started a good reform program; tenant farmers who used to pay as much as 70% of their crops in rent now pay a maximum of 37-5%-Even the landlords who at first bitterly opposed the reforms now seem to be pleased because contented tenants deliver their rents regularly...