本帖最后由 choi 于 8-1-2024 13:51 编辑
(2) It turns out that Chiang Kai-shek did have a horse called Wu-di.
Audrey Ronning Topping, Unleashed Voice: Celestial Horses, Foreign Devils and Taiwan's Future. Andelman Unleashed, Jan 24, 2024
https://daandelman.substack.com/ ... ce-celestial-horses
Note:
(a)
(i) Andelman Unleashed apparently is the website of David A Andelman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Andelman
Obviously he invites certain contributors to guest-write in his website, and Ronning-Topping did.
(ii) Audrey Ronning Topping (1928- ) is 96 years old. Her husband was Seymour Topping (1921 – 2020); there is a short en.wikipedia.org about him.
(A) Her latest book was
China Mission; A personal history from the last imperial dynasty to the People's Republic. LSU Press, 2013.
https://lsupress.org/9780807152782/china-mission/
On the book cover was the family of her grandfather -- and Chester's father -- Halvor Rønning.
(B) James A Scherer (Emeritus professor, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Illinois), Ronning, Halvor (1862 — 1950), Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC), undated
https://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/ronning-halvor
For Macedonian call, see Act 16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_16
(section 6 The man of Macedonia (16:9–10) )
(C) Jeff Lindsay, Hannah Ronning, Missionary to China. Arise from the Dust, July 5, 2015.
https://www.arisefromthedust.com ... issionary-to-china/
(b) "Nanjing, July 1948[:] My story begins at an intimate dinner party taking place in Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek's 'Heavenly Palace' in Nanjing. At the same time, one million Communist revolutionary troops were massing to sail across the Yangtze River in armed Chinese junks to seize Nanjing * * * The two men, both in their early fifties, had first met four years earlier in 1945, in Chongqing, China's wartime capital. * * * [After Japan surrendered] The 'Gimo' (American slang for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek) then moved his Nationalist headquarters from Chongqing down the Yangtze River to Nanjing * * * Foreign diplomatic missions were obliged to follow. Ronning packed up the Canadian embassy and sailed down through the risky, untamed Three Great Gorges of the Yangtze to Chiang's southern capital of Nanjing, where he proudly raised the first Canadian flag to fly in China. * * * shortly after the dinner Chiang Kai-shek shared with my father in 1949 [here Audrey said 1949, not 1948], the Generalissimo left to continue supervision of the Nationalists' retreat from mainland China which had actually begun months, even years before. The Great Retreat [which is sectional heading] Han Cheung, a staff reporter for The Taiwan Times, recorded the 'massive' relocation of nationalist headquarters from the mainland, called 'The Great Retreat.' Some 60 planes flew each day, shuttling between China and Taiwan transporting fuel, weapons, ammunition, and eventually personnel."
(i) Chinese Civil War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War
(Mao "on 21 April, [1949,] began the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign [渡江战役]. On 23 April, they captured the KMT's capital, Nanjing")
On the other hand, Chiang was not ROC president; he stepped down from both KMT leadership 总裁 and ROC presidency 下野/ 引退 on Jan 21, 1949.
(ii) Chiang Kai-shek (1887 – 1975)
So, in 1948 Chiang would be 61 years old. That year, Chester Ronning would be 54.
(iii) "he [Chester] proudly raised the first Canadian flag to fly in China"
(A) In 1946, after the Surrender of Japan, the KMT relocated its central government back to Nanjing." en.wikipedia.org for Nanjing.
(B) Canada–China relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93China_relations
(section 1 History, section 1.1 Prior to 1949)
Please read the entire section 1.1.
(iv) Audrey's wording sounded as if the journalist Han Cheung was reporting in 1949. In fact, CHEUNG Han is a reporter PRESETLY with Taipei Times (not The Taiwan Times).
國立臺灣博物館 函: 受文者：教育部高等教育司. Sept 29, 2021 (臺博推字第1103001937號; "檢送本館辦理2021年秋季「外語導覽員培訓計畫」(International Docent Training Program)")
https://sa.dila.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/國立臺灣博物館.pdf
(at page 4: "外聘講師－Cheung Han 張瀚（美國籍）
現職：Taipei Times（《台北時報》）專題記者
學歷：美國密蘇里大學新聞學碩士")
(c) "Before retreating to Taiwan, himself, Generalissimo Chiang reminded Chester again that his sleek, golden-coated, Ferghana steed was no ordinary horse. The stallion had descended from royal Nisean ancestors, known as the mount of nobility. * * * Dad explained [to Chiang] that his Norwegian-American parents had served as missionaries with the China Inland Mission. 'As a child I learned to speak like the Chinese children I grew up with. When my parents were out Christianizing the Chinese, I was in the kitchen being Heathenized by the cook.' * * * After their dinner in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek shared with Chester the history of his beloved Celestial Horse, Wudi. In 138 BC, when China’s first Han Emperor Wu discovered in the ancient Chinese divination classic known as I Ching, or The Book of Changes, some words that would change the history of China: 'Divine horses are due to appear from the Northwest.' The emperor was smitten. Determined to possess the “Divine” horses he commanded, General Zhang Qian, (141 BC-87 BC), commander of the guards at the Imperial Palace to risk the hazardous journey to Central Asia to negotiate peace with the ferocious Huns and trade China’s unique silk brocade for horses. The General set forth with 100 mounted men to obtain the magical chargers from the Huns. When they were 5,000 km northwest of Chang-an (now Xian) in the lush Ferghana Valley in Turkestan (now Uzbekistan), the men were captured and held for 10 years. In 1975, I took this photo of a contemporary statue of General Zhang Qian on his Celestial Horse standing before the Sun Gate [阳关, which in English could be Yang Pass or Yangguan Pass] that leads to the Yungan Pass and through the Hexi Corridor to the Old Silk Road. * * * an 8th century painting 'Promenade of the Three Beauties' by Li Gonglin, (Sung dynasty, 960-1279 CE) * * * Nanjing Commander Lin Tsun [林遵] had defected to the Communists and his naval squadron turned their guns on Nationalist troops. * * * On April 23,1949, Chester and Topping, became eye-witnesses to the fall of Nanjing and the end of China’s Civil War. At dawn, Top was jarred awake by gunfire and explosions. Pandemonium swept the streets of Nanjing. He jumped into his jeep, picked up Bill Kuan [比尔·管], a young Chinese reporter with Agence France Press"
(i) Ferghana horse 大宛馬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferghana_horse
("The Han dynasty Emperor Wudi sent a huge military expedition to Ferghana in 104 BC to acquire a sufficient number of 'Heavenly Horses' ")
(A) 大宛
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/大宛
("大宛国大概在今日费尔干纳盆地")
(B) Ferghana Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergana_Valley
(has City of Ferghana. See map)
(ii) Nisean horse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisean_horse
There is no online dictionary which enlists Nisean, so I do not know how it is pronounced.
(iii) For China Inland Mission, see OMF International
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMF_International
("formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship [海外基督使团] and before 1964 the China Inland Mission [(CIM) 中國內地會]")
(iv) English dictionary:
* heathen (n, adj; Did You Know?)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heathen
(v) 周易 or 易经 talked about 八卦 or eight directions, each direction symbolized by an animal: "乾为马，坤为牛，震为龙，巽为鸡，坎为豕，离为雉，艮为狗，兑为羊." 乾 is 西北.
(vi) "Sun Gate that leads to the Yungan Pass"
Sun Gate 阳关, which in English could be Yang Pass or Yangguan Pass. So Audrey was wrong to say the above quotation, and misspelled "Yungan," to boot.
(vii) " 'Promenade of the Three Beauties' by Li Gonglin"
宋李公麟畫麗人行卷. 國立故宮博物院, undated.
https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.t ... pid=1298&Dept=P
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