Introducing the status of inland women to officers’ wives.
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Talking with women and introducing medical knowledge.
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Talking with the Maoya chieftain and introducing the National Government’s policies and the status of Tibetans in inland regions.
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Getting back her pen with five gold coins and a watch. Visiting the Hotogtu and explaining to each of them that the old dynasty had been replaced and new policies had been implemented.
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Visiting the Chongxi chieftain at his personal residence.
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After Liu Manqing arrived at Jiangka (Mangkang), the battalion commander of the Tibetan army, stationed at Jiangka, promised to report to the chief officer of Qamdo within six days. Liu Manqing demanded that she be allowed to accompany the battalion commander’s report to Qamdo, but she was refused.
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Before embarking on her journey back to Nanjing, Liu Manqing bid farewell to the important people in Tibet, so as to observe their attitudes toward the Central Government. Some of them lied to her,stating that the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission had asked her not to return. She then received a notice of summoning from the 13th Dalai Lama, so she went to meet with him immediately.
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Sun Fo, President of the Executive Yuan at that time, wrote the following comment in the preface to her book A Mission to Xikang and Tibet: “Compared with Zhang Qian and Ban Chao, who were sent on a mission to the western region in the Han dynasty, Liu Manqing was truly no inferior, with her unparalleled outstanding achievements on this visit to the border area by order of the government. Her deeds are exemplary and deserve to be widely eulogized.”
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On August 30, 1930, an article titled “Chairman Chiang Kai-shek sent Ms. Liu Manqing, who was no inferior to men in her combat against the wind and snow, to visit Tibet” was published in Utusan Borneo.
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In 1930, Xu Shiguang wrote an article titled “Ms. Liu Manqing was highly praised during the memorial week.”
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Liu Manqing felt that her work with the Civil Service was “paperwork that makes her just trail after others,” as she “knew well that she had neither the talent nor the will to do such work.” In June 1929, after working in the department for less than half a year, she submitted a report to Gu Yingfen, Head of the Civil Service, and Chiang Kai-shek. In the report, she volunteered to survey Xikang and Tibet.
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On May 25, the Dalai Lama met with Liu Manqing again in Norbulingka and they talked for four or five hours. He told her that, “The British truly intend to tempt me, but I know that our sovereignty must not be lost ...”
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On January 6, 1934, Liu Manqing talked with Commercial Press about purchasing books.
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Dai Jitao, President of the Examination Yuan of the National Government at that time, wrote the preface.
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Yu Youren, President of the Control Yuan of the National Government at that time, wrote an inscription “In memory of a mission to Xikang and Tibet” for A Mission to Xikang and Tibet.
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