Word: chiangs
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...fiasco was the death blow for Imperial China and its Confucian tradition. A powerful new faction emerged, led by Sun Yat-sen, and in October 1911, it brought revolution to the Chinese. The overthrow of the imperial power came with surprisingly little bloodshed--the enemies were still from without. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung, two aids of Sun, worked with their leader for unity in the Middle Kingdom. The process was completed by Mao in 1949 with the October 1 founding of The People's Republic...
...culminate in resumption of full diplomatic relations. Chou, however, reminded reporters that Peking is opposed to any such move while Taiwan still has an embassy in Washington. Asked if he might make a visit to the U.S., the Premier replied, "As long as there is a representative of the Chiang Kai-shek clique there...
...settling down in the snow, he expires, his tail feathers quaking as he gives up the ghost. The ghost, however, will not be given up so easily and flies off to some spiritual never-never land. There, it-or he-is instructed in higher wisdom by a bird called Chiang, whose lessons in life and philosophy and heightened consciousness take a hint from Dale Carnegie, a leaf from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and a volume from Kahlil Gibran. Thus enlightened, Jonathan is apparently reborn. He returns to his flock and spreads the good word in a sort of Sermon...
...Livingston Seagull is the warmest, most goodhearted, most tuneful (score by Neil Diamond) piece of moral uplift since the musical version of Lost Horizon. Years hence, scholars may debate the significance of the fact that the wise elder in Shangri-La and the wise bird here are both called Chiang. Surely it is no mere coincidence. A homage, perhaps. Or maybe a moment of mystic communion, a stroke of magic enlightenment of the sort that Jonathan is always shoving his beak into...
...Emperor Claudius I is said to have choked to death on a pear he tossed playfully into the air and then swallowed. More recently, Mrs. Joan Skakel, Ethel Kennedy's sister-in-law, died after inhaling a chunk of meat in 1967. T.V. Soong, the brother of Madame Chiang Kaishek, choked to death in 1971 while dining, as did ex-Baseball Slugger Jimmy Foxx...