Word: soong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen Li-fu. This week the newspaper Ta Rung Pao reported that Chiang Kai-shek may succeed T. V. Soong as Premier, bring in Chang Chun as his deputy and administrator...
...almost unnoticed by a side door. But among the drably clad provincials were some colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...
...books (China to Me, The Soong Sisters, Hong Kong Holiday) impertinent, casual Emily Hahn proved that she was the only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...
Laurette, Mary Jane and Catherine Soong, daughters of China's Premier T. V. Soong and nieces of the Chiangs, flew east from San Francisco to school. Laurette, 18, was bound for Washington's Trinity College (Roman Catholic), Mary Jane and Catherine, 16 and 15, for Baltimore and Long Island prep schools, both Quaker...
...educator in China, Dr. Stuart traveled the country far & wide, stayed aloof from China's politics, met and endeared himself to Chinese of every stripe. More important, he came to be well known and trusted by Chiang Kaishek, Madame Chiang, Premier T. V. Soong and Communist negotiator Chou En-lai (some of Communist Yenan's leaders are Yenching graduates...