Word: chekiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy balance between individualistic capitalism and proletarian communism" is the ultimate aim of all Chinese revolutionary efforts today, Chi-yun Chang of the National University of Chekiang declared last night at the Institute of Geographical Exploration in the last of four Monday lectures on "China in a New World...
...Chang asserted in his lecture last night at the Institute of Geographical Exploration that "China is trying now to solve the essential enigma of new democracies--successful combination of freedom and order, liberty and discipline." Chang, head of the Department of History and Geography at the National Chekiang University and member of the People's Political Council of China, declared that his country's citizens have made great strides during the war in educating themselves for democracy...
...this campaign the air force was fighting for its own survival as well as for the ground troops; if the Japs could seize the whole railroad, and mop up eastern China at their leisure, Chennault would lose vital bases in Kiwangsi, Fukien and Chekiang provinces from which his patrols now fan out over Shanghai, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. If these fields are lost, an approach to the China coast by westbound Nimitz-MacArthur forces will be immeasurably more difficult...
Inland waterways in Hupeh, winding through rivers and lakes, famous for their river pirates, were transformed by war into one of China's most important smuggling networks. Cloth, medicine, cigarets and cotton pour through these channels from provinces as far distant as Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangsu. Now Japan's troops straddle these inland waterways. To cut traffic entirely, they have to advance only 20 miles more, to Santouping's fortifications...
Chen Pu-lei, The Gissimo's thin secretary, is probably closest to him of all. Chen, 53, from the Gissimo's home province (Chekiang), was a distinguished journalist until he became Chiang's secretary in 1935. His importance rests in his determining who sees Chiang and what Chiang sees...