Word: kuomintang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting for the freedom of China and the emancipation of women, became China's first woman lawyer, wife of Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. (1942-46); of cancer; in Los Angeles. At 17 Madame Wei left home to join Sun Yat-sen's exiled Kuomintang Party in Japan, returned to help plot the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. She carried secret messages and bombs in a suitcase, held revolutionary meetings in her own home, even though her father was a prominent figure in the government. As a member of the Chinese delegation...
Nations at odds often share with taunting children and shrewish wives an inspired instinct for the stinging epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
...labor organizer-a job that occasionally landed him in prison. In 1934, when Mao led the Red army in its famed, 6,000-mile Long March from southern Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan in northern China, Organizer Liu went underground, remained behind as a Communist agent in Kuomintang territory...
When the Communists made the 6,000-mile "Long March" from southern Kiangsi to Yenan in 1934-35, Liu Shao-chi remained in Kuomintang territory as a Red agent. Summoned to Yenan in 1942 he began his rise to the top levels of the party reportedly as personal secretary to Mao Tse-tung, and as an expert in "indoctrination methods," meaning brainwashing...
...smoking Liu, uneasily describe him as a "wan wraith in the shadows" who looks like an "underexposed snapshot." His family life is equally shadowy: his first wife "died" in 1945; his second is described as a "handsome" woman from Tientsin. One of his four sons was executed by the Kuomintang; a daughter went to school in Moscow and married a Spanish Communist. Sharp-tongued and humorless, Liu Shao-chi has flicked a raw spot on nearly everyone around him. When Premier Chou En-lai suggested in a speech that no one could be considered faultless, he was forced to admit...