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This reawakening was typical of most of the South China areas ravished or neglected by the Japanese invader. In the hour of victory, starving people in such Fukien province ports as Amoy lay down to die in coffins waiting for them in the streets. But now overseas Chinese are again sending money from the Philippines and Southeast Asia to rehabilitate the coastal trade, and on the Chinese New Year nearly every Amoy citizen boasted the traditional (but in recent years unobtainable) new suit or dress. Inland, such cities as Hengyang and Changsha, once 98% destroyed, are 30% rebuilt. Pot-holed...
Rice-eating Southerners, the slim, shrewd sophisticates of Chekiang and Fukien, would go back to their poems, books and lotus seeds. Canton's markets and midnight snackeries would be abuzz again. The Hangchow people would see their lovely lakes. The Soochow girls would croon their languid songs...
...Chinese still controlled most of the coast south from Hangchow Bay. Last fortnight they enlarged their holdings when Chinese troops recaptured the coastal cities of Yamhsien and Limchow, taken by the Japanese last November. Another force reoccupied Siapu on the Fukien coast...
...this campaign the air force was fighting for its own survival as well as for the ground troops; if the Japs could seize the whole railroad, and mop up eastern China at their leisure, Chennault would lose vital bases in Kiwangsi, Fukien and Chekiang provinces from which his patrols now fan out over Shanghai, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. If these fields are lost, an approach to the China coast by westbound Nimitz-MacArthur forces will be immeasurably more difficult...
...University (he helped pay his way by teaching Chinese) later took a Ph.D. at Duke, followed by summer courses at Cambridge University, the University of Berlin. After a year of European lecturing, Dr. Chen, who had been ordained to the Methodist ministry, returned to China to be Dean of Fukien Christian College. Five years later he became General Secretary of the National Christian Council, China's equivalent to the U.S.'s Federal Council of Churches...