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Resistance to the regime is scarcely confined to Peking. The post of commander of the Foochow military region based in Fukien province has remained conspicuously vacant since General P'i Ting-chun died in July 1976. Ten months later one of P'i's subordinates, General Ch'eng Ch'ao-chang, was also officially reported to have suffered "a martyr's death" at his post. Some Sinologists believe the generals were victims of rebellions in Fukien that forced Hua to dispatch 12,000 troops to the region. Last week a radio broadcast from Fukien reported that followers of the Gang...
...Foochow last February, five Chinese Christians were arrested and paraded in dunce hats through the city streets. The incident was related to TIME Correspondent David Aikman in Hong Kong by two overseas Chinese missionaries who had been visiting the coastal province of Fukien. While such a tale of public humiliation is hardly extraordinary, the reason for it was. The missionaries reported that an underground Chinese Christian community numbering more than 1,200 has grown up in Foochow over the past five years. If the story of the Foochow revival is indeed basically true, it signals that the Christian faith...
Besides the missionaries who visited Foochow, other travelers speak of finding groups of underground Christians in many villages and cities. In Shanghai, according to one account, the prayer groups are nurtured by "Bible women" -lay ministers who took over pastoral leadership after the male leaders were arrested. How many Christians are there in China now? Generous estimates range from 1 million to 2 million...
...Radio Foochow charged that opponents of the Cultural Revolution in that coastal city were also launching countermarches and bankrolling batches of workers on trips to Peking, ostensibly to "report conditions" but actually "to sabotage production and communication." As a result, complained the Red Guards, "the water is stirred and has become murky, and the main orientation of the struggle is changed, so that in the confusion the dreadful conse quences of this will be blamed on the revolutionary leftists"-meaning the loyal Maoists themselves...
...these programs, Peking now talks reassuringly of a "bumper summer harvest next year." But the fact is that after almost eleven years of Communist rule, China has gained not at all in the desperate race between food production and population increase. "Food is very scarce," wrote a mother in Foochow to her son in Hong Kong. "Were it not for your remittance, we would not taste a piece of meat in a year...