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As usual, the accounts were sketchy, sometimes contradictory, and - as in the reports of pitched battles between forces totaling 50,000 men around Chungking - often exaggerated. But their message was clear. After a brief respite of army-imposed order, violence and civil strife are again spreading across China.
But it hardly matters: they have fewer and fewer at home too. The hub city of Wuhan is still in open rebellion, with army units probably aiding the anti-Maoists, the region's navy and air force units loyal to Peking. In Kwangtung province, adjoining Hong Kong, a key...
The situation in China, reported the Soviet news agency Tass last week, "increasingly resembles civil war." Fighting between the supporters and the opponents of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution spread along the thousand miles of Yangtze River from Chungking in the western mountains to Shanghai on...
The Maoists could hardly afford to leave Wuhan in the hands of their enemies. The fifth largest city in China, Wuhan (pop. 2,800,000) is really three cities-Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang-and is the Chicago of China-the transportation hub of the vast country. Its great double-decked...
The top Chinese best-seller this summer, with more than a million sales, was "Red Crag," by Lo Kuang-pin and Yang Yi-yen. This 420,000-word blockbuster, set in Chungking in 1949, "describes the bitter struggle between the people and the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur...