Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been beautiful in her youth, when she went to Shanghai in the '20s and studied Communism. Now, at 46, after some advanced studies in Moscow and nine years in Jap prisons, she was tuberculous and no longer beautiful. But baggy-eyed, jug-eared Chinese General Chen Yi, looking back on the worst month of his Formosa governorship, would never forget the woman known as Hsieh Hsüeh-hung-Thanks Snow...
...Chen blamed last month's Formosa rebellion on Snow Red. This was unduly modest of him; most of the trouble had been made by Chen and his postliberation carpetbaggers from the mainland...
Snow Red, as president of her local Women's Association, had made anti-Chen speeches but-said those who knew her-"she didn't sound like a Communist." Chen admitted last week: "Before the trouble started, the Communists were not well organized, but after it started they seized their opportunities...
...Make Reds. When Chinese rule returned to Formosa (ending Japanese possession since 1895), 64-year-old Chen had seized an opportunity himself. With his Chinese aides and "monopoly police" he took over and expanded the Japanese system of government industrial and trade monopoly (sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, oil refining, cement). He confiscated some 500 Jap-owned factories and mines, tens of thousands of houses. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, he ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Formosans felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost sons...
...pleasant evening a truckload of monopoly police cruised down the main streets of Formosa's capital, Taipeh, hunting monopoly violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets-from his gang's factory.) A crowd gathered. A policeman fired. The crowd chased off the police, burned their truck...