Word: fukien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, 14 years ago, Chen wrote a poem which he thought would be his last. It was at night, deep in the Fukien mountains. Chen had been wounded; his troops were starving; he was surrounded by Nationalists. He saw no way out but suicide. Wrote the despairing general...
...story goes that, in bygone days, whenever a baby girl was born in China's Fukien Province, her family planted 100 trees as her future dowry. Consequently, Fukien abounds in lush woodlands which, unfortunately, provide ideal hideouts for various killers, including Communists and tigers. Nationalist soldiers (as if the Communists were not enough) have found themselves beset by the tiger menace...
Last week, a Fukien official reported that during the past year 100 men had been lost to the beasts. Fukien provincial troops would henceforth receive special instruction in big-game hunting. A TIME correspondent retold an ancient story with a new twist...
...Some villagers say that recently the ghost of Confucius, accompanied by the wraiths of several disciples, was seen wandering through a certain Fukien forest. There it met an old woman weeping beside a grave. She said: 'My husband's father was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also; and now my son has met the same fate.' Confucius asked why she didn't return to her village instead of living in so dangerous a place. The old woman wailed: 'I am a refugee from the Communists. Here there are tigers but no oppressive...
Cried Chen Yang-piao: "In Fukien if I am not the No. 1 candidate, I surely am the No. 2. Why am I not on the list?" Teng Kung-hsien pounded the speaker's table as though squashing injustice. "We have been on the wrong road! Why belong to the Kuomintang after...