Word: fukien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring, from toppling over. In Honan, 5,000,000 farmers were battling swarms of insects, and six other provinces were plagued by plant fungus. Finally, last week, came official reports that "the worst flood of the century" had been raging through the provinces of Kiangsu and Anhwei, Fukien and Kwangtung, then over Honan, swirling down the North and West rivers toward heavily populated Canton (pop. 1,500,000) itself. Hundreds of thousands of townspeople were pressed into working on the embankments, and the dikes of Canton held...
Barely 72 hours later, the Communist military commander for the Fukien district of South China, who may not be a madman but hardly qualifies as a preserver of the peace, sent crashing out an entirely different message, addressed to the Nationalist Chinese garrison entrenched on Quemoy Island: "No military works can avoid complete destruction under the assault of our modern army and air force . . . The landing on Quemoy is imminent . . . Surrender...
...apparently among the weeds that popped up under Mao's new policy of letting all flowers bloom. The pruning shears were hard at work last week. For more than two months Radio Peking has been airing a steady rollcall of revolts, rebellions, plots and counter-revolutionary movements. In Fukien province one counter-revolutionary group was said to have created a complete organization including shadow brigades, divisions and an army, worked out detailed plans to rob grain storehouses and assassinate government officials...
...passing of Dr. Paul Hutchinson. Because of his appeal for the youth of China, at the Methodist Centennial in Columbus, Ohio in 1919, I went to China as his assistant; my first summer there was spent with Paul and Agnes and their three youngsters in the mountains of Fukien. As long as they lived in Shanghai, their home was open to me. After reading "Happy Man," one happy woman reflects that except for Paul Hutchinson I might never have gone to China, might never have met George Fitch,*might never have found myself a mother of six and grandmother...
...past fortnight Nationalist and U.S. intelligence sources have detected signs of two additional new airfields being started on the Fukien coast-near Amoy, the mainland port opposite Quemoy. They bring to five the total of Communist airfields recently built or abuilding on the mainland across from Formosa. Once completed and equipped, the new fields will give the Chinese Communists air striking power over the Nationalist-held offshore islands and Formosa. U.S. intelligence knows that the Chinese Communists have shifted their bomber forces southward into Fomrosa range; U.S. reconnaissance shows that the Communists have amassed heavy military equipment along the China...