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Word: shen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Shen Yu-sheng: "Before liberation I read American pornographic periodicals, movie magazines and novels about psychological perverts . . . If it had not been for Chairman Mao and the Communist Party, I would either have sold my soul to the devil or taken my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: My Soul to the Devil | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Crowning Irony. The crowning irony came this week when Nationalist Spokesman Shen Chang-huan felt constrained to dispel at least part of the heavy fog surrounding President Truman's statement on Formosa. Said Shen in a statement to the Chinese press: "I believe the U.S. has no territorial ambitions on Formosa." It was a statement that any local U.S. spokesman might have been expected to make, but of course none did. Any local U.S. diplomat who said anything reassuring to the Chinese government would have expected to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE U.S. TRAGEDY IN FORMOSA | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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