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...names: "The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard," "Hut on Chieh Shan Mountain," "The Man Long Separated from the Studio of Eight Ink Stones." But in China last week any of those names, signed with slender strokes upon a painting, were immediately recognizable as belonging to Ch'ih Pai-shih, China's most popular living artist...
Four-star General Pai Chung-hsi, Minister of National Defense, reported rather perfunctorily on military affairs-somehow he skipped the war situation in North China and Manchuria. A Manchurian cried: "We are losing, nonetheless! Who are the criminals responsible?" The hall resounded with yells of "Find out! Shoot them! Shoot them...
...Communists gave instructions about looting to Junan's lao pai hsing (common people). Their notice said: "When you want to rob the rich, you must not do it as you please. You must take a soldier with...
...With Wallace as your President," intoned the up-to-the-minute young Communist, "we could have peace. He represents your lao pai hsing. With Truman and the rest there can be no peace." After eight days of this, he ordered the missionaries to leave Tsaoyang. Hard-handed Wong kept some souvenirs: two radios, Pastor Werdal's Parker "51," and a silk sleeping bag belonging to an elderly woman missionary...
Returning to China, a Peking University professor at 26, Hu started a literary reform that crackled through China like fire through a paper house. Today Pai Hua is used in China's schools, books and some newspapers (though not government documents). All China reveres Hu Shih as the "Young Sage" (the old one: Confucius...