a Venusian invasion

A scene from Rei Sakamoto's 21st Century Girl (2001) showing Rina Sasahara, with maebari clearly visible […]

As minister of foreign affairs at Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek had appointed Mr. C. C. Wu. The latter became Nanking’s chief negotiator in a conference at Kiukiang, on August 24, with the Hankow left leaders, Wang Ching-wei and Sun Fo, twelve days after Chiang’s resignation. The Kiukiang conference was followed by a series of conferences at Shanghai, during the second week in September, and finally at Nanking in the middle of the month.

Black eyebrows and eyes so dark and scrutinizing (but he was being scrutinized too) as to give the face a sinister expression, especially through a sly underbrow manner of switching the eyes from one object to another.