Paoting
Britishnoun
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At the Paoting Military Academy, he was the only cadet who cut off his pigtail, that symbol of submission to imperial rule; seven years passed before an obscure Changsha student named Mao Tse-tung made a similar gesture of revolt.
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At China's Paoting Military Academy in 1906, he got high marks, though he was the only student who did not wear a queue; in those days queuelessness was a sign of dangerous, republican thoughts.
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He attended the Paoting Military Academy, met Chiang Kai-shek in the early '203 and has been a trusted lieutenant and devoted friend ever since.
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Last week they were moving on Paoting, 90 miles from Peiping.
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For many weeks their strategy in the north had been deliberately to sacrifice the provincial troops that seemed to have neither proper artillery nor planes, and prepare for a real defense at Paoting, 85 mi. southwest of Peiping, where modern divisions of Chiang's own army were being rushed.
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