Mao Bang, 124
Mao Zedong, 160, 178–79, 253, 380
Mao Zhongying, 396
maps, xii
Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937), xix, xxi, 53–55, 213, 234, 251, 264
marriage: children (see children); courtship and wedding, 243–50; difficulty of balancing family and career, 284, 297, 300–301, 308–9, 311, 321; early married life, 248–56; and Fulbright exchange, 291–92; home in Taichung, 256–59, 276–78; home in Taipei, 278–80, 300–301, 311–12, 361; and Luo Yuchang’s career with railway administration and modernization, 257–59, 269–80; pressure to marry following college graduation, 227
Marshall Plan, 173
Marx, Karl, 17, 153
Mei Xin, 364
Mei Yiqi, 120
Meishan, incident on the road in (1944), 143–46
Meng Baoqin, 215, 226, 244–45
Meng Wenkan, 285
Meng Zhisun, 83, 85–86, 100–101, 120, 123, 281, 403
“The Mental Traveler” (Blake), 340
Miao Langshan, 183–84, 220–24, 226
Milton, John, 216–17
Min River, 2, 130, 134, 143, 151, 180, 186, 196
Minford, John, 367
Mo Yan, 352
Modern Continental Dramas (Hatcher), 218
mother of Chi Pang-yuan. See Pei Yuzhen
Mount Datun, 376
Mount Holyoke College, 227, 300
Mueller, Professor, 307
Mukden Incident (1931), 7, 52, 234, 410, 414; events described, 30–33; song about, 65–66
Mullen, Professor, 310
music and song: and homesickness, 119; Mr. Huang and, 184–85; and Nankai Middle School, 113–16, 119, 192; and Nankai Middle School class reunion (1999), 402–3; and politics, 159, 349; songs heard in childhood, 2, 44; songs heard in Taiwan, 242; songs sung by refugees, 2–3, 46, 65–66, 113–14; and Sun Yat-sen Middle School, 46; and Wuhan University, 184; Mr. Yu and, 192–93
My Son Hansheng (Xiao Sa), 354
Na Zhiliang, 297
Nagasaki, 175, 356
Nakata Chiyoda, 27
Nanjing: as capital of Nationalist government, 51; Chi family in, 36–37, 53–55, 207–8; Chi family’s flight from Nanjiang to Hankou, 55–58, 410; Chi Pang-yuan’s return to (1999), 407–14; Chi Pang-yuan’s return to, following demobilization, 207–9; “golden decade” in (1928–1937), 37, 52–53; Japanese bombing of, 53–54; map, xxii; massacre (1937), 61–63; massacre memorial, 408; memorial service for Zhang Dafei, 208–9; Sun Yat-sen Middle School moved to, 46, 48; Zhang Dafei’s name on memorial monument in, xx, 209, 409–10, 413–14
Nankai Middle School, xxii, 78–128; air raids, 92–93, 110–13; alumni and parents of alumni, xxii, 115, 120–21; athletics at, 116; correspondence with Nankai classmates, 138; debate competition, 102, 105–6; dormitory life, 87–90; Drama Society, 115–16; establishment of, 81; evacuation to Chongqing, xxii, 79, 86; friendships, 90–96, 116–19, 143, 161–62, 397–408; grading system, 91; music and song at, 113–16, 119, 192; and National Joint College Entrance Exams, 118–21; physical education, 86–87; and Principal Zhang Boling, 78–83; protest marches against the Japanese, 79; reestablished in Tianjin, 82; reunion of classmates (1999), 397–407; scout training, 96–99; teachers and classes at, 83–87, 99–101, 281
Nankai University, 81–82
National College Entrance Exams, 283–87
National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 321–36; and An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature: Taiwan 1949–1974, 323–27, 346; Qian Mu and, 332–36; and textbook reform, 327–34
National Joint College Entrance Exams, 118–21
National Political Council, 160, 178
National Southwestern Associated University, 82, 120, 187, 194, 221
National Taiwan Chung-Hsing University. See Chung-Hsing University
National Taiwan University, 312, 316; Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 337–40; retirement from, 382; teaching career at, xiv, xxiii, 183, 236–42, 256–58, 311, 320–21, 336–42, 382
National Wuhan University. See Wuhan University
Nationalists: Chi Shiying and, 29, 34, 51–52; Chi Shiying’s expulsion from Nationalist Party, xvii, 29, 261–62, 384; and civil war, 210, 223–24, 228–29, 253, 267, 380, 404; early relationship with Communist Party, 29, 52, 63; Eisenhower and, 173; and February 28 Incident (1947), xvii; and June 1 massacre (1947 Nationalist attack on Communist students and teachers), 221–26; Kuomintang joined by Chi Shiying, 29, 51; language policy, 343–44; Northern Expedition, 41, 51, 253; relationship with Communist Party during War of Resistance, 160–61; Three Principles of the People, 29, 46, 179, 265, 295; views of northeasterners, 29, 265–67; wartime capital of Chongqing, 63, 79. See also Chiang Kai-shek
“Night” (Yang Huan), 331
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 342
Nishida Kitaro, 17
Niu Yongjian, 52
“The Noise of Drums and Gongs Fills the Air” (Wang Feifan), 247
Northeast China Association, 34, 45, 55, 78–79, 102, 229, 330, 386
Northeast Middle School, 234
Northern Expedition, 41, 51, 253
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 339
“O Captain! My Captain” (Whitman), 169, 174, 225
Oblamov (Goncharov), 184
“Ode to a Nightingale” (Keats), 156, 158–59
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (Keats), 157–58
“On the Songhua River” (Zhang Hanhui), 65–66
One Year in Kyoto (Lin Wenyue), 362
Orphan of Asia (Wu Zhuoliu), xvii, 354, 371
Orwell, George, 342
Ostravosky, Nikolai A., 108–9
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza (Shah of Iran), 297–98
Pai, Kenneth, xviii
Palace Museum (Beigou), 296–99
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (Palgrave), 146–48, 168
Pan Guangdan, 221
Pan Yingmao, 397–99
The Peacock Flies Home—Yuang Changying (Yang Jingyuan), 405
Pearl Harbor, 107, 125
Pei Lianju (cousin), 56, 65
Pei Puyan, 240
Pei Shuqing (uncle), 59–60, 62, 64, 71
Pei Xincheng (maternal grandfather), 8, 14–15
Pei Yuzhen (Pei Chunyi; mother), 10, 56, 229, 375; and absence of Chi Shiying during first 9 years of marriage, 4, 10–11; and arrival of friends and acquaintances in Taiwan, 251; and birth of Chi Pang-yuan’s first child, 258; and bombing of Chongqing, 113; care for aunts and other extended family members, 212–13, 229; and Chi Pang-yuan’s childhood illness, 3–4; and Chi Pang-yuan’s graduation from college, 229; and Chi Pang-yuan’s love of literature, 14, 374–75; and Chi Pang-yuan’s teaching career, 284, 300; and Christianity, 373–74; death and burial, 373–75; death of children, 12–13, 58–60, 65; feelings for husband, 36; first meeting with Chi Shiying, 9; and flight from Guilin to Huaiyuan, 71–72; and flight from Nanjiang to Hankou, 56, 58–60; help with grandchildren and household in Taiwan, 284, 300, 311, 321, 374; hospitality toward displaced students, 35, 42–44, 47–48, 92, 207–8; illness following birth of daughter (1937), 53–55, 56, 58–62; marriage into Chi family, 2; and move to Taiwan, 249–50; possessions, 381–82, 412; relationship with Chi Pang-yuan, 374–75; relationship with mother-in-law, 6; reunification with Chi Shiying in Nanjiang, 13–15; songs sung by, 2, 44; Zhang Dafei and, 47–48, 126
PEN International, 359
Peng Ge, 360
Peng Mingmin, 263
Peng Shan, 226
Peng Tingde, 255
Peng Xuepei, 45
Peng Yande, 390
peonies, memories of, 12, 396–97
“Perhaps” (Wen Yiduo), 188
Perng Ching-hsi, 360, 367
poetry: by Chi Pang-yuan’s students, 289; and confluence of three rivers in Leshan, 166–67; and expressions of grief, xxiv, 152–53, 169, 186, 308, 381, 401; and friendships in high school, 117–18; and marking of tran
sitions in life, 337, 390–91; memorization of, 101, 153–54, 167, 216–17, 290; poems as treasured possessions, 109, 247; poetry societies, 325–26, 343, 364; student movement triggered by assassination of poety Wen Yiduo, 188–90; teachers and classes at Nankai Middle School, 85, 101; teachers and classes at Wuhan University, 101, 146–49, 151–59, 169, 216–18; and Xi Bangmin’s physics exam paper, 86; Zhu Guangqian’s English poetry class, 101, 146–49, 151–59, 169. See also specific poets and poems
politics: and assassination of Wen Yiduo, 189; Chi Pang-yuan’s distaste for, 164, 194; and Chinese literature, 345–46, 351; and college friends, 159–64, 404–5; and June 1 massacre (1947), 221–26; left-leaning Russian works, 108–9, 220–21, 349; persecution of teachers and intellectuals, 405–7; plans for new political party, 262–63, 384; postwar politics and partisanship at Wuhan University, 181, 187–90, 221–26; progressive reading groups and communist recruitment efforts, 159–64, 349; student movement/protest marches, 187–90, 194–96; and textbook reform, 328–34
postal system, 145–46
primary school, 15–16, 35, 37, 41, 408
propaganda literature, 346
protest marches, 187–90, 194–95, 224
Pu Yi, 178, 210
Qi Jun, 326, 365
Qian Mu, xviii, 180–81; as consultant for National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 332–36; influence on Chi Pang-yuan, xviii, xx–xxi, 332–36; relocation from Hong Kong to Taiwan, 333, 335; Wen Yiduo and, 189; Zhu Guangqian and, 406
Qian Zhongshu, 406
Qin Shaoyou, 72, 123
Qin Zihao, 367
Qingyi River, 164–67, 180
Qiong Hong, 360
Qu Junong, 320
Qu Wanli, 329–30
railways: Luo Yuchang’s career in railway administration and modernization, 257–59, 269–80, 321; and Mukden Incident (1931), 30–31 (see also Mukden Incident); railway journeys, 14, 38, 56–57, 72, 210–11, 391–93; and return to homeland (1993), 391–93; Tianjin-Pukou Railroad, 14, 38, 54, 72, 230; translation of railway manual, 269–71; Two Road Case, 279–80; and typhoon damage, 273–75; and War of Resistance, 54; yamen tradition, 279
Rao Hanxiang, 22, 24, 25
reading groups, left-leaning, 159–64, 349
A Record of Changes in the Northeast (Chen Jiaji), 254–55
Rickert, Heinrich, 18
A Room of One’s Own (Woolf), 136
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 111, 169, 173, 174
Russell, Bertrand, 153
Russia: and communist recruitment efforts, 159; and northeastern China, 178, 210, 264–65; and postwar politics and partisanship at Wuhan University, 221–26; Russian literature, 108, 159, 183–84, 220–21, 349; Russian passengers on train journey (1993), 392–93
Russo-Japanese War (1905), xv
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, 301–6, 310
Sampson, Mary, 315
sanatorium. See Western Hills Sanatorium
scar literature, 349
Shakespeare, William, 148, 168, 182, 218
Shang Qin, 367
Shanghai: Chi Pang-yuan demobilized back to Shanghai following departure from Leshan, 204–7; Chi Pang-yuan in, following graduation from Wuhan University, 228–30; Chi Pang-yuan’s return to (1993), 390; Chi Pang-yuan’s wedding in, 246–47; Chi Shiying in, 228–30; deteriorating conditions in, 247–50; map, xxii
Shao Hua, 261
Shapingba, 79, 94, 104, 105, 131, 203, 397; bombing of, 113; Chi family in, 79, 92, 97, 120, 122, 126, 254, 399; as cultural center, 97, 116; and end of War of Resistance, 176; homesickness for, 131, 138; and Nankai Middle School, 79, 82, 83; summer break in (1944), 143–46; Time and Tide Bookstore in, 108; and Time and Tide magazine, 79, 102. See also Nankai Middle School
Shay, Peter, 315
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, xxiv, 148–49, 152–54, 156, 158–59, 182, 217, 347
Shen Congwen, xx
Shen Fu, 331
Shen Gangbo, 84, 256
Shen Guangwen, 343, 364
Shen Xuyu, 103
Shen Yunlong, 383, 384
Shen Zengwen, 281, 284
Shenyang, xvi; Chi family in, 5, 7, 9, 19; civil war and, 267; General Guo Songling and, 20–24, 27, 31, 392; map, xxii; Mukden Incident (1931), 7, 30–32, 52, 234, 410, 414 (see also Mukden Incident); opening of Chi Shiying Memorial Library at Northeast Sun Yat-sen Middle School, 35, 414–16; reestablishment of Sun Yat-sen Middle School, 75, 282, 414–15; return to (1993), 392–93; Yoshida Shigeru and, 25–26; and Zhang Dafei’s father, 47
Shi Jian (Mo Tang), 33, 370
Shi Jiansheng, 296
Shi Jianxing, 288
Shi Shengjiu, 75
Shi Zhaoxi, 313
Shi Zhihong, 8, 213
shipboard journeys, 57–58, 129–31
Sholokov, Mikhail, 159, 183–84
Sichuan, 146, 180; Guo Songling and, 20; Japanese bombing of, 92–93, 110–13; Nankai Middle School moved to, xxii, 79, 86; plentitude and stability of, 130–31; protest marches, 190; respect for culture in, 150; schools and government facilities moved to, 63; Sun Yat-sen Middle School moved to, 71, 74–75, 78, 234, 414; travels to, during War of Resistance, 8, 66, 69, 73–75, 101; and War of Resistance, 92–93, 112, 119, 152, 156; Zhang Dafei and, 103, 139, 144. See also Chongqing; Emei Mountain; Leshan; Wuhan University
The Silent Don (Sholokov), 159, 183–84
Sima Zhongyuan, 347
singing. See music and song
Sino-Japanese War (first; 1894–1895), xv, 52, 80
Sino-Japanese War (second; 1937–1945). See War of Resistance against Japan
sisters of Chi Pang-yuan. See Chi Jingyuan; Chi Ningyuan; Chi Xingyuan
Smith, Adam, 40
Son of the Revolution (Liang Heng), 348–49
Song Changzhi, 21
Old Song (cook), 42
Song Meihwa, 367
Song Miannan, 318
“Song of Emei Mountain Moon” (Li Bai), 167
Song Wenming, 387–88
“Spring River, Flowers, Moonlit Night” (Zhang Ruoxu), 167
Ssu-Ma Chung-Yuan, xxiv–xxv
St. John’s University, 347–49
“Stanzas Written in Dejection—December, Near Naples” (Shelley), 154–55
Stilwell, Joseph, 173–74
Stuart, John Leighton, 82
Su Bingwen, 33, 415
Su Dongpo, 123, 151, 403
Su Shangda, 22, 25
Su Tong, 352
Su Weizhen, 368
“Su Wu Herds Sheep,” 2, 44
Su Yuxi, 193, 390
Sun Fali, 218
Sun Jiaxiu, 182
Sun Jinsan, 144–45, 152, 231
Sun Liren, 265
Sun Weimang, 368
Sun Yat-sen Memorial, 408–9
Sun Yat-sen Middle School, xxi–xxii, 282, 414–16; commemorative album, 75; establishment of, xxi–xxii, 44–45; moved to Nanjiang, 46, 48; music and singing at, 65–66; New Year’s Eve traditions, 65–66; opening of Chi Shiying Memorial Library, 35, 414–16; reestablished in Shenyang (1990s), 75, 414–15; return to Shenyang following victory over the Japanese, 282, 321; settled in Jingning Temple (Ziliujing, Sichuan), 71, 74–75, 78, 414; travels of students and teachers during War of Resistance, xxii, 55–58, 63–77, 410–11, 414; Wang Tianming and, 321
Sun Yuanliang, 73–74
Sun Zhixuan, 313
Tai Jingnong, 332, 339
Taichung: commuting to work in, 311–12, 320; home in, 256–59, 276–78; and Luo Yuchang’s career with railway administration and modernization, 257–59, 276–78. See also Chung-Hsing University
Taichung First Boys’ High School, xxiii, 281–90
Tainan, 270, 276
Taipei, xxii, 311–12; home in, 278–80, 300–301, 311–12, 361; universities in, 312. See also Taiwan National University
Taipei Imperial University, 235
Taipei People (Bai Xiangyong), 347, 354
Taiwan, xvii, xxii, 233–80; arrival of friends and a
cquaintances from mainland (1948), 250–53; ceded to Japan after First Sino-Japanese War, 52; Chi family’s move to, 249–50; Chi Pang-yuan asked to talk about, in the U.S., 344–45; Chi Pang-yuan’s arrival in, xxiii, 233–36; Chi Pang-yuan’s career in (see teaching career; translation and editing); Chi Pang-yuan’s decision to travel to, 230–32; compulsory education policy, 243–44, 328, 345; and deteriorating conditions on the mainland, 245; early married life in, 248–56; history of, xv, 343; home in Taichung, 256–59, 276–78; home in Taipei, 278–80, 300–301, 311–12, 361; Japanese in, 283–84; literature in, 324–25, 343–47, 354, 358–72; modernization of railway system, 268–80; proscribed books, 341; stabilization in the 1950s, 268; typhoons, 273–75
Taiwan Oral History Research Chamber, 383
Taiwan Provincial College of Agriculture, 294–96. See also Chung-Hsing University
Takeuchi Tsuna, 26
The Tale of Genji (Lin Wenyue, trans.), 363
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), 183
Tan Danjiong, 297
Tang Huisun, 295, 312, 319
Tang, May, 366
Tang Zhenxun, 313
Tao Baichuan, 334
Tay, William, 350, 357
teaching career, 281–322; and Chung-Hsing University, 294–96, 311–21; difficulty of balancing family and career, 284, 297, 300–301, 308–9, 311, 321; English novels taught, 341–42; and establishment of Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Chung-Hsing University, 295, 311–15; and Free University (Berlin), 352–57; and Fulbright exchange, 284, 291–94, 300–311; memories of students, 287–90, 317; and National Taiwan University, xiv, xxiii, 183, 236–42, 256–58, 311, 320–21, 336–42, 382; and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, 301–6; and students as spiritual descendants, 290; and Taichung First Boys’ High School, xxiii, 281–90; teaching style and philosophy, 307, 340–42
teahouses, 136, 197
Tee, Carlos, 366
Teng Ssu-yu, 310
Terre Haute State University, 310
textbook reform, 327–34
Thailand, King of, 297–99
“A Thousand People Sing Together,” 113–14
Three Principles of the People, 29, 46, 179, 265, 295
Tian Dewang, 218–20
Tian Yushi, 386
Tianjin, 5; Chi family in, 34–35; Chi Shiying in, 7, 10, 16, 28; Guo Songling and, 21, 22; Japanese occupation of, 79; and Nankai Middle School, 81, 82; refugees in, 32, 45, 48; Tianjin-Pukou Railroad, 14, 38, 54, 72, 230
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