Word: chui
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus in 518 A.D., the Chinese poet, Po Chui, expressed his alarm at the roaring Yangtze gorges in Central China, the bottleneck through which the waters of the 3,000-mile-Iong river pour out of the Szechwan basin and Tibetan foothills onto the flat paddies of China's rice bowl. Then as now, the enormous power of the Yangtze ran wild in floodtime while the Chinese shrugged ia resignation. Even now, damming the Yangtze is a bigger job than China can cope with...