Word: chekiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red armies who at week's end stood within 15 miles of China's capital, Nanking. The government was preparing to move to Canton on the south coast and its armies were pulling southwest toward Kweilin and south toward Chekiang Province...
...Hangchow airport, about an hour and a half later, Formosa's Governor Chen Cheng and Chen Yi, governor of Chiang's native Chekiang Province, were among a small group of officials who watched the Gimo's plane land. Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant. Said one of the guests: "The Generalissimo seemed calm and relaxed-like one who has solved a great problem and is content...
Double Mission. The machine guns fascinated Chiang first; from his youth in Chekiang Province, he wanted to be a soldier. At China's Paoting Military Academy in 1906, he got high marks, though he was the only student who did not wear a queue; in those days queuelessness was a sign of dangerous, republican thoughts. The high marks got him a chance to study at a military school in Tokyo. And here, with other young Chinese, he met Sun Yat-sen on the eve of the October 1911 revolt against the Manchu dynasty. Once the revolution began, Chiang hurried...
...Born in Chekiang, like the Gimo, Wong was educated at Belgium's Louvain University. He speaks fluent English and French, and is passionately devoted to improving China's productivity. By preference, he would leave the military and political problems to others, concentrate on what he calls "proper human organization of resources...
...more than an hour and a half he spoke in his high-pitched Chekiang accent. He used no prepared text, for he needed none. In all the world no man knew better than Chiang that China's portion was present pain and future hope. He spoke first of the pain: "I confess seven of the government's best divisions were destroyed in Manchuria. They were my best armies-armies that under my command accomplished the revolutionary campaign with glory...