Word: fenghua
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...subtle twist in this morale offensive, which was aimed at Chungking in general and at Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in particular, was that one of the towns the Japanese advance rolled past was Fenghua, the "Gissimo's" birthplace. The Gissimo is sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since...