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by Chi Pang-yuan


  Chung, Karen, 367

  Chung Ling, 357

  civil war, 210, 223–24, 228, 253, 267, 380, 404

  clothing, 205–6, 213, 313, 344

  Cold War, 341

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 186, 216–17

  Columbia University Press, 369–72

  Communist Party: and assassination of Wen Yiduo, 189; Chi Pang-yuan and, 109; Chi Shiying and, 190; and civil war, 210, 223–24, 228–29, 253, 267, 380, 404; Communist textbooks, 331; and crisis in the northeast after victory, 264–67; early relationship with Nationalists, 29, 52, 63; and end of War of Resistance, 178–79, 210; expansion of influence following end of war, 187–90, 194–96, 224; and June 1 massacre (1947 Nationalist attack on Communist students and teachers), 221–26; and left-leaning Russian works, 109, 159; persecution of teachers during Cultural Revolution, 405–7; and politics at universities, 181, 404; recruitment of intellectuals, 159–64; relationship with Nationalists during War of Resistance, 160–61; and Russia, 210; Xinhua News, 161. See also Cultural Revolution

  conferences and conventions, xxiv, 316, 347–52, 357, 358

  Confucius, 407

  cousins of Chi Pang-yuan, 9, 97, 229, 230, 393–96

  Crouch, A. R., 326

  cuckoo bird, 164–66

  Cultural Revolution, 190, 226, 309, 336, 347–49, 351, 379, 405–6

  Dadu River, 2, 134, 164–67, 180, 196

  Dai Chaosheng, 256

  Dai Liuling, 183

  Daily Record of the Major Events of the Republic of China, 111–12

  Dalian, 351, 375, 415–16

  Dante Alighieri, 218–19, 378

  Dawn Train (Sima Zhongyuan), 347

  Daybreak (Zhu Xining), 347

  debate competition (Nankai Middle School), 102, 105–6

  Deeney, John, 323, 336

  “Dejection: An Ode” (Coleridge), 186

  Demers, Pierre E., 366

  Deng Lianxi, 102, 103, 105, 217, 251

  Dewey, James, 81

  The Diary of Ranglu (Yang Jingyuan), 405

  Dickens, Charles, 183

  Digressions on Fifty Years of Taiwan Railways (Cai Renhui), 275

  Ding Ling, 346

  Ding Zhenwan, 313, 314, 320, 360

  Divina Commedia (Dante), 218–21

  Dong Ping, 279

  Dong Qizheng, 72, 374

  Dong Xiumin, 72

  Dong Xiying, 180

  Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin), 99, 302, 308

  “Dreaming of the South of the Yangtze” (Huang-Fu Song), 123

  Du Fu, xxiv, 390

  Du, Nancy, 366–67

  Du Yuming, 265

  Du Zhengsheng, 389

  Duan Qirui, 121

  Eastern Song Society, 343, 364

  education: and abundance of literature in Taiwan, 324; compulsory education policy in Taiwan, 243–44, 328, 345; elimination of professional standards under communist rule, 188; as high priority, xxii, 45, 69–70, 81, 82, 110, 282, 375; Japanese policy of assimilation through education, 48; student movement/protest marches at universities, 187–90, 221–26; textbook reform in Taiwan, 327–34; and wartime conditions, 98–99 (see also air raids); Zhang Boling’s advocacy of, 81–82. See also Guilin Girls’ Middle School; Indiana University; Nankai Middle School; primary school; Sun Yat-sen Middle School; Wuhan University; Zhounan Girl’s Middle School

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 173

  Emei Mountain, 134, 167, 180, 197, 201–3

  Engels, Friedrich, 153

  English language: Chi Pang-yuan’s early studies of, 35, 83, 105; freshman exams and Zhu Guangqian’s recommendation to switch to Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 140–42; and Fulbright exchange language training and practice teaching, 292–94; grammar, 283–84; and interpreting for visitors to Taiwan, 295–99; teaching English and English literature at National Taiwan University, 183, 311, 339–42; teaching English at Chung-Hsing University, 294–95, 311–15; teaching English at Taichung First Boys’ High School, xxiii, 283–84; translation of literature for Columbia University Press, 369–72; Wu Mi’s English poetry class, 216–17; Zhu Guangqian’s English poetry class, 101, 146–49, 157–59, 169. See also literature; teaching career; translation and editing

  Evanston High School (Minnesota), 293

  Everlasting and Unchanging (spoken drama), 185–87

  examinations, 118–19, 283–87

  Fact and Fiction (Russell), 153

  The Fall of Berlin (film), 355–56

  Fan Guang, 22

  Fang Chong, 182

  Fang Dongmei, 290

  father of Chi Pang-yuan. See Chi Shiying

  feminism, 291–92

  Feng Jialu, 130

  Fengtian Army, 16, 20, 21, 24–27, 31–33, 51

  finances, 205–6, 230, 365–66

  Flying Tigers, 123–25, 139–40

  Forster, E. M., xxiv, 352

  “Fragrant” (Bian Zhilin), 117

  Frenzy, Horst, 302, 305

  friendships: arrival of friends and acquaintances in Taiwan (1948), 250–53; college friends, 131, 133–34, 192–93, 192–204, 215, 226–27, 255, 390–91, 404–5; family friends, 231–36, 254–55, 374; friends in Germany, 354–55; friends in Taiwan, 238–44, 272, 276–77, 285–87, 362–64, 376–77; friends in the U.S., 303–6, 309–10; friendship and correspondence with Zhang Dafei, 68, 122–28, 138–40, 144, 152, 169–73; middle school and high school friends, 90–96, 116–19, 143, 161–62, 397–408; and Nankai Middle School class reunion (1999), 397–407; and politics, 159–64, 404–5; suitors and close male friends, 184–87 (see also Mr. Huang; Mr. Yu; Zhang Dafei)

  Fries, Dr., 292, 293

  From the Center of the Earth (Bernstein), 349

  Fu Dongju, 121

  Fu Guoyong, 86

  Fu Qizhen, 161–62, 402

  Fu Zheng, 386

  Fu Zuoyi, 121

  Fulbright Program, 284, 291–94, 300–311, 344; English language training and practice teaching, 292–94; studies at Indiana University, 305–11; teaching at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, 301–6

  Gan Dawei, 391

  Teacher Gao (physical education teacher), 87

  Gao Xibing, 22, 46

  Gao Yushu, 262, 384, 389

  Gao Zhihang, 411

  Ge Dingyu, 238

  Ge Fujiang, 238, 242–44

  Ge Wenhua, 33

  gender, and university life, 136

  A General History of China (Lin Ruihan), 332–33

  A General History of China (Qian Mu), 335–36

  Germany: Chi Pang-yuan as visiting professor at Free University in Berlin, 352–57; Chi Shiying’s studies in, xvi, 7, 11, 17–19, 52, 354

  Gide, Andre, 109

  girl scouts, 96–99, 166

  Go Ok-nam, 344–45

  Goldblatt, Howard, 367

  Goncharov, Ivan, 184

  Gou Yulun, 363

  grandparents of Chi Pang-yuan. See Chi Pengda; Pei Xincheng; Zhang Congzhou

  Grass, Günter, 358

  Greening Tree (Zhang Xianliang), 351

  Gregory, Sister Mary

  Gu Baohu, 316

  Gu Xianrong, 282

  Gu Zhengding, 261

  Gu Zhenguan, 401

  Guangxi: travels through, during War of Resistance, xxii, 63, 69–72, 75, 415; and War of Resistance, 126, 144, 168, 404

  Gui Zhiting, 137, 227

  Guilin, 69–73

  Guilin Girls’ Middle School, 69–70

  Guizhou: schools and government facilities moved to, 63; travels through, during War of Resistance, 8, 69–70, 72–73, 75, 234, 415; and War of Resistance, 119, 144, 152, 404

  Guo Feng, 415

  Guo Guanying, 389

  Guo Hengyu, 353–55, 357

  Guo Songling: background and career, 19–22; Chi Shiying as supporter of, 4, 5, 19–24, 380, 387, 392; coup attempt against Zhang Zuolin (1925), xvi, 4, 5, 22–25; execution of, 24

  Guo Tingyi, 240

  Guo Weifan, 368

  Guo Yuxin, 262, 384r />
  Guo Zhichao, 306

  Han Chunxuan, 249

  Han, Pastor, 191

  Han Qifeng, 252–53

  Han Qinglun, 33

  Han Shuxiu, 20, 24

  Han Yunmei, 303

  Hankou, 55–58, 63–65, 214–30, 410

  Hao Lengruo, 46, 65

  Hao Ran, 346

  Hao Ran Foundation, 362

  Haung-Fu Song, 123

  Hayek, Friedrich A., 295–96

  He Qifang, 109, 117

  He Xin, 103, 323, 346

  Heckelmann, Dieter, 353

  Hei Ye, 326

  Heng Gaoshou, 239

  Hiroshima, 175, 356

  History of Modern Chinese Fiction (Hsia), 350

  homesickness, 119, 131, 138, 352; homesickness literature, 343, 344, 367

  Hong Chan, 110, 113

  Hong Juan, 110, 113

  Hong Lanyou, 110

  horseback riding, 94

  hospitalization. See traffic accident; Western Hills Sanatorium

  Hou Jian, 256, 336

  Elder Sister Hou (college roommate), 159, 160, 162–64, 349

  How Steel Is Tempered (Ostrovsky), 108–9

  Hsia, C. T., 300–301, 347, 350

  Hsiang, Sarah Jen-hui, 360

  Hsiao, Norma Liu, 360

  Hu Fo, 389

  Hu Hongrui, 303–5

  Hu Shi, 82, 121, 295, 299, 359

  Hu Taili, 350

  Hu Xuguang, 285

  Hu Yaoheng, 310, 339

  Hu Zhiwei, 73

  Hua Yan, 240, 256, 296, 352

  Huaiyuan, 71–73

  Mr. Huang, 184–87

  Huang Chunming, 346, 365

  Huang Chunzhi, 320

  Huang Fa’ce, 327

  Huang Fu, 28, 29, 52

  Huang Henghao, 45–46, 55

  Huang Jilu, 334

  Huangjuenya military area, 93–96

  Hunan: Chi family in Yongfeng, 68–69, 172; travels through, during War of Resistance, xxii, 8, 63–65, 71–72, 415; and War of Resistance, 126, 144, 168–69, 404; Zhang Dafei shot down over Xinyang, 169, 209, 412

  Hussein, King of Jordan, 298–99

  Huxley, Aldous, 342

  Ihira Naomichi, 386–87

  “The Indian Serenade” (Shelley), 152

  Indiana University, xxiii, 182–83, 302, 305–11, 345

  Ing, Gly T. H., 361–62

  Ing, Nancy, 360–66, 370

  Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 383, 385

  Interviews with Chi Shiying (oral history project), 383–89

  Japan: Chi Shiying’s studies in, xvi, 7, 10–11, 16–17, 29, 52; and end of war, 175; establishment of Manchukuo, 30–33, 52 (see also Manchukuo, Kingdom of); and history of northeastern China, xv, 52; and history of Taiwan, xv, 52; interests in northeastern China, 29, 52, 264; Japanese in Taiwan, 242, 283–84, 364; literature in Japanese, 344, 364; Mukden Incident (1931), 7, 30–33, 52, 234, 410, 414; Pearl Harbor attack, 107, 125; protection of Chi Shiying following General Guo Songling’s failed coup attempt, 25–26, 28; U.S. bombing of Tokyo, 154–55, 175. See also War of Resistance against Japan

  Ji Chunyu, 319

  Ji Xian, 365, 367

  Ji Zhiwen, 177, 191, 246

  Jia Wu, 102, 105

  Jiading, 129, 134, 180. See also Leshan

  Jiale Paper Factory, 134

  Jian Chuhui (Jian Wan), 288

  Jian Jinghui, 288

  Jian Zhen, 109

  Jiang Daoyu, 285

  Jiang Gui, 299

  Jiang Xianxue, 9

  Jin Hengbiao, 350

  Jin Shiguang, 75

  Jin Shurong, 284

  Jinan Incident (1928), 52

  Jing Kedu, 33

  Jingning Temple, 71, 74–75, 78, 234, 414

  Mr. and Mrs. Jocobsson, 271–73

  Kaei Fusataru, 27

  Kang Guojie, 400

  Kang the Junior (math teacher), 84–85

  Kang Ningxiang, 385, 389

  Kao Tian’en, 360, 367

  Kashin-Beck disease, 180

  Kawakami Hajime, 17

  Ke Qingming, 329–30, 339, 359

  Keats, John, 156–59, 166–68, 182, 217, 347, 381

  Kennedy, John F., 295

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 293, 295

  Kinkley, Jeffrey, 347

  Know, Jeanne, 302

  Korean War, 395

  Koss, Nicholas, 366

  Kuang Shufang, 215, 226–27

  Kuomintang Party. See Nationalists

  Lai Guangda, 399

  Lai He, 344

  Lai Ho, 354, 364

  Lai Shuying, 399

  Lamartine, Alphonse de, 398

  “A Lament” (Shelley), 152

  Lao She, 346

  Le Daiyun, 347

  Lee Ou-fan, 357

  Legislative Yuan, 96, 250, 252, 261–62, 333, 385, 388

  Lei Zhen, xvii, 262, 263, 382, 384

  Leimaping’e (Leibo, Mabian, Pingshan, and Ebian), 156–59, 162

  Leshan, 180; and beauty of nature, 164–66, 196–98; Chi Pang-yuan’s departure from, 201–4; Jaile Paper Factory, 134; Japanese bombing of, 180; journey to (August 1943), 129–31; map, xxii; teahouses, 136, 197; university life in, 131–77 (see also Wuhan University)

  Letters to My Love—1945–1948 (Yang Jingyuan), 405

  Lewis, A. B., 319–20

  Leys, Simon, 349

  Mama Li, 36–37, 43, 213

  Li Bai, 166–67

  Li Baochen, 113–14

  Li Chiao, xxiv

  Li Dazhao, 266

  Old Li (doorman), 213

  Li Fengmao, 350

  Li Gongpu, 221

  Li Guangbi, 75

  Li Guangtian, 109

  Li Huiyin, 22

  Li Jinglin, 22

  Li Mi, 93–96

  Li Mingde, 350

  Li Qiao, 365, 371

  Li Qinglin, 318

  Li Shifen, 67

  Li Tao, 415

  Li Wanju, 262, 384

  Li Xi’en, 45

  Li Xingtang, 75

  Li Xiuying, 162, 164

  Li Yuanhong, 121

  Li Yunxian, 285

  Li Ziyu, 297

  Liang Heng, 348–49

  Liang Qiqiao, 121

  Liang Shiqiu, 326

  Liang Surong, 33, 262–63, 370, 385, 388, 389

  Liao Chunqin, 258–59

  Liao River, 18, 25, 27, 415

  Liao Yinan, 288

  Liaoning. See China, northeastern; Shenyang; Tieling

  Lin Biao, 266, 380

  Lin Borong, 288–89

  Lin Bozou Foundation, 366

  Lin Changmin, 22, 25

  Lin Haifeng, 277

  Lin Haiyin, 355, 362, 364, 365

  Lin Hengtai, 365

  Lin Linxue, 239

  Lin Liuchi, 378

  Lin Qinnan, 39

  Lin Quan, 383

  Lin Ruihan, 332–34

  Lin Shuifu, 387

  Lin Wenyue, 339, 360, 362–64

  Lin Xiantang, 282

  Lin Xin, 90–96

  Lin Xinqin, 348–49

  Lin Xiongzheng, 282

  Lin Yi, 331–32

  Lin Yutang, 326, 359, 360

  Lin Zhiping, 295, 312

  Lin Zhongsheng, 383–84

  Ling Guangwu, 75

  literature: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature: Taiwan 1949–1974, 323–27; books read during air raids, 111; and Chi Pang-yuan’s correspondence with Zhang Dafei, 122–23; Chi Pang-yuan’s early love for, 14, 39, 40, 85–86, 374–75; The Chinese PEN (journal), 358–69; classical Chinese fiction, 99–101; and compassion, 57; defining Taiwan literature, 343–47; homesickness literature, 343, 344, 367; Hu Shi on, 299; Japanese-language literature in Taiwan, 344, 364; and mainland China, 345–52; reading at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, 305; Russian literature, 108–9, 159, 183–84, 220–21, 349; scar literature, 349; in Taiwan, 324–25, 343–47, 354, 358–72; teachers and classes at Chung-Hsing Univer
sity, 313–16; teachers and classes at Indiana University, 182–83, 307–8; teachers and classes at Nankai Middle School, 85–86, 99–101; teachers and classes at Terre Haute State University, 310; teachers and classes at Wuhan University, 180–84, 216–24 (see also Zhu Guangqian); and textbook reform, 327–32; and Time and Tide Bookstore, 108–9; translation of literature for Columbia University Press, 369–72. See also conferences and conventions; English language; poetry; teaching career; translation and editing

  Little Western Hill, 5, 11–16, 394, 396–97

  Liu Daoyuan, 295, 312, 321

  Liu Kexiang, 350

  Liu Maosong, 290

  Liu Naicheng, 222

  Liu Shaotang, 75, 389

  Liu Shengbin, 102, 103, 105

  Liu Shousheng, 408

  Liu Zhiqi, 400–401

  Liu Zuoyan, 318

  Lo Fu, 365, 367

  Long Shiguang, 75

  Long Yingzong, 344, 364

  Louis, Gross, 308

  love: and Lamartine’s poetry, 398; and senior thesis on Shelley, 217; suitors and close male friends (see Mr. Huang; Mr. Yu; Zhang Dafei); Yang Jingyuan and, 405. See also friendships; marriage

  Lu Chunfang, 22, 25

  Lu Hanfen, 285

  Lu Heruo, 344, 364

  Lu Hongqi, 253

  Lu Qiao, 100

  Lu Qiaozhen, 115–16, 131, 132, 134, 163, 200–201, 390–91

  Lu Wenjing, 398

  Lu Xun, xx

  Lu Youhui, 25

  Lu Zhihong, 236

  “Lucy” poems (Wordsworth), 147, 378

  Luo Jialun, 359

  Luo Longji, 189

  Luo Pingyun, 334–35

  Luo Yuchang (husband): background and early career, 241–42; and birth of first child, 258–59; career in railway administration and modernization, 257–59, 269–80, 321; and Chi Pang-yuan’s teaching career, 284, 286, 291–92; courtship and marriage, 243–50; first acquaintance with Chi Shiying, 239–42; loss of hearing, 280; and move to Taichung, 256–59; and move to Taipei, 278, 300; Order of the Brilliant Star, 280; translation of railway manual, 269–71. See also marriage

  Luo Yunping, 321

  Luo Zhiyuan, 288

  Luojia Mountain: senior year at Wuhan University, Luojia Mountain campus, 214–18

  Ma Baishui, 66

  Ma Boshui, 46

  Ma Guoguang (Liang Xuan), 232

  Ma Shiyi, 406

  Ma Tingying, 231–36, 242

  Ma Yanchu, 121

  Ma Yangfeng, 121

  Ma Yifu, 181

  Ma Zhanshan, 33

  MacArthur, Douglas, 152, 292

  Makino Nobuaki, 25

  Malmqvist, Göran, 367, 369

  Manchukuo, Kingdom of, xv, 30–33, 45, 48, 52, 178, 380

 

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