Word: fukien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hankow-Canton railroad, finally set up field headquarters at Henyang, where the railroad branches out to Kweilin in Pai's home province of Kwangsi. To the east, units of one-eyed Red General Liu Po-cheng's armies moved into the towns of Nanping and Shahsien in Fukien province, putting Communist vanguards within 300 miles of the refugee Nationalist capital in Canton. In Canton, Garrison Commander Yeh Shao issued a proclamation declaring the city to be in a state of war, advised citizens who could to return to their native villages. One member of the legislative yuan criticized...
...evacuate Nanking. Three days after the Red offensive had begun, they streamed out of the capital, weary and disorganized, along the dry brown roads leading through fields of green vegetables and yellow rape, southward and eastward toward the coastal cities of Shanghai and Hangchow and the rugged mountains of Fukien and Kiangsi...
...orders from Moscow in 1927 to become the Kuomintang's master instead of its ally. Through his agents, Chiang learned of the Moscow orders to Borodin almost as soon as Borodin himself. Chiang moved first. His army scattered the Chinese Communists into the hills of Kiangsi and Fukien Provinces. Michael Borodin escaped to Moscow...
...threw himself against the Japanese, most of his military strength was spent harrying the Communists from province to province. Chiang made the south too hot for the Communists, but in 1934, led by Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, they marched 6,000 miles from the farthest point in Fukien Province to the red loess hills of Shensi, and set up a Communist capital at Yenan...
...months of steady rains sent, the swollen Min River plunging through Fukien province, drowning a thousand people, flooding 50 towns. A million refugees crowded the highlands, mourning the loss of 80% of Fukien's rice harvest. Tungting Lake overflowed, ruining 50% of Hunan's rice. In Kiangsi Province, 60% of the rice was destroyed; in Kiangsu...