Word: changefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late afternoon, our ten-wheeler pulled into the large village of Chiang-chiahu, forward headquarters of General Hu Chang-ching's 99th Army. "We are fighting from village to village," said affable, silver-toothed Hu, pointing to some pillars of smoke a couple of miles ahead. "Chen Yi's sixth column and some of Liu Po-cheng's troops are. throwing up defense lines between here and Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group." There were 20 or more tough miles still to go for a junction with the encircled Huang...
...time before dark for return to Tsaolaochi. On the way back we stopped for a village funeral. Lined against the twilight in an empty paddyfield stood half a dozen countrymen around a high-ended Chinese coffin. The chief mourners wore white headbands of grief. They were burying their mother, Chang Hu-shih, an old woman...
...heroine," said one of the mourners. "Yesterday when government troops marched here they could find no man to show them where the Communists were posted. Old Woman Chang led them across fields and pointed out the trenches. The Communists opened fire; a bullet struck her in the belly. She fell on this spot...
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...Though I Die . . ." Many Chinese, especially northerners, could not accept this apparent detachment in the face of Japan's threat. In December 1936, the Nationalist garrison at Sian, facing Communist guerrilla forces, laid down their arms and refused to fight "fellow Chinese" any longer. Like their commander, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang ("The Young Marshal"), most of them were from Manchuria, and they wanted to fight the Japanese, if anybody. Chiang flew immediately to Sian to investigate...