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Died. Wang Chung-hui, 77, jurist, statesman, first Foreign Affairs Minister of the Chinese Nationalist Republic, onetime judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, World War II Secretary-General of China's Supreme National Defense Council, onetime Chief Justice (appointed 1920) of the Supreme Court of China; after long illness; in Taipei, Formosa. Born in Canton, educated at Peiyang University, Yale University and in Europe, ubiquitous Scholar Wang was author of the standard English translation of the German Civil Code, onetime co-editor of the Journal of the American Bar Association, pen behind the Yueh...
Last week the peasants were being asked to believe a startling promise. By the fall of 1961, says Vice Premier Teng Tzu-hui, the lower reaches of the world's siltiest river will indeed run crystal-clear. Red China has decided to take on the proud and tempestuous Yellow...
...speech sent China's Communists flying into action. New cadres were trained and sent out to ginger up timorous local committees; schools for two million bookkeepers were started. Evidently there were sweeping changes in the top command: Teng Tsu-hui, China's farm boss, has not been seen or heard from since. By last month the Central Committee was ready to spring the new line. Mao's speech (made public for the first time) provided the new battle cries. Red China's ubiquitous loudspeakers dinned his down-on-the-farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into...
...with friends who talked about girls or other nonrevolutionary matters, he fell in love. According to old custom, his parents had married him to a village girl when he was 14. He discarded the girl back home, with whom he had never lived, and married Yang K'ai-hui, a professor's daughter and an active Communist. Friends celebrated their marriage as an "ideal romance." She bore him two sons, both of whom were educated in Moscow. Yang was executed by Hunan's anti-Communist Governor Ho Chien...
Thus began the last hour of Yoshiko's strange life. She was born, the Princess Chin Pi-hui (Radiant Jade) of the Manchu dynasty, overthrown in 1911 by China's Sun Yatsen. She had been adopted by a member of Japan's powerful Black Dragon society, renamed Yoshiko (Beautiful One), reared man-fashion in the warrior code of Nippon. As a girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese...