Word: chekiang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-boiled personal asceticism. Chen prefers Western suits to the stern, closed-collar pajamas affected by Mao, Chou and Liu, plays go (a Japanese game of strategy) like an expert-though one Japanese master found him "too hasty." In Shanghai some years ago, Chen's friendliness with Chekiang Opera Star Yuan Hsueh-feng was the talk of the Bund. He once said: "Without women, a guerrilla unit has no soul...
...well succeed his father as President of Nationalist China. On Formosa, Ching-kuo is known as "Little Chiang," and his only major rival for the top job is Vice President Chen Cheng, who suffers from a liver ailment and has been in semiretirement since June. Born in Chekiang province to the Gimo's first wife, a peasant girl who was later killed in a Japanese bombing raid, Ching-kuo was 16 when the Gimo sent him to Moscow in 1925 "to learn more about revolutionary ideas." He joined the Komsomol and studied guerrilla tactics at a Red army academy...
...creating a system of political commissars to check on loyalty in the army. Under Ching-kuo, Nationalist guerrillas probe the mainland for soft spots in the defenses and public disaffection with the Red regime. Over the past two years, some 1,500 men have been put ashore in Chekiang and Kwangtung provinces. In U.S. opinion, individual saboteurs often complete their missions, but most large raiding parties have been quickly spotted and mopped up by the Red Chinese...
...year-old girl refugee from Chekiang province said that only once this year had she been able to buy "shoes, stockings, washcloths and a tube of toothpaste. We got only eight feet of cotton cloth annually." Another woman refugee burst into tears when she spoke of friends "still suffering night and day back there...
...Peking's Evening News reported that thousands of passengers had written in declaring their delight in the fact that express trains often made unscheduled stops of 15 minutes or more because the delays give them a chance to get out and perform calisthenics. "After the exercises," women of Chekiang province were quoted, "our limbs feel more relaxed and our brain more sober...