Word: cantonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH a total area of 3.7 million square miles, China is not only larger than the U.S. but embraces at least as wide a variety of climate. There can be few more vivid ways of finding this out than to fly suddenly down from Peking to Canton in the early days of November, exchanging the brisk cold, the austere browns and russets of a northern autumn for the rich greens and the sensuous, languid heat of the tropics. The contrast is greater than moving from New England to Miami at the same time of the year. To leave Peking...
...Canton itself has a 19th century appearance. The houses and factories and warehouses are packed together in unplanned gray proximity; the skyline of low roofs is broken only by scores of factory chimneys pouring out smoke into the fetid air. It could be a daguerreotype of industrial Liverpool, except that the Pearl River is alive with sampans and junks...
...Canton airport was like a deserted movie set, the cavernous terminal silent and still and lit only in the section where we got out of our 13-car motorcade. We were ushered through to the waiting Antonov-24 Turboprop on the apron. Two rather sullen stewardesses in creased olive-drab army-style uniforms helped us put our heavy typewriters on the shelves above the seats (contrary to international regulations), handed round candy before takeoff, then retreated to the rear of the 48-seat aircraft. A barely intelligible English-language announcement warned that "all passengers should register inflammables, corrosives, explosives...
Closest to Ho, and perhaps the brightest of all his associates, was Pham Van Dong, now Premier of North Viet Nam. Son of a high-ranking mandarin, Pham was educated in Hué and Hanoi, joined Ho in Canton in 1925. The next year he was sent back to Viet Nam to organize party cells. Arrested by the French in 1930, Pham spent six years at hard labor in a penal colony, then fled to China to rejoin his leader. When Ho was jailed by the Nationalist Chinese from 1942 to 1943, Pham took over the leadership of the independence...
...Chinese offices in Hong Kong and advances through intermediaries, before getting the nod. Finally Miller tried the direct approach and spent 21? to mail a letter to the China National Machinery Import and Export Corp. in Peking. Back came an invitation for a Boeing contingent to attend the Canton trade fair in April and then go to Peking...