Word: hengyang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists too. Another southward lunge brought the Communists within 215 miles of Canton, where weary Nationalist officials began packing again. Their next stop: Chungking, scene of their exile during most of the war with Japan. Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi hastily regrouped what was left of his forces at Hengyang...
...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 Canton streets are being repaired, and are expected to be shipshape in three months...
...From Hengyang, TIME Correspondent William Gray cabled last week...
...padded black rags hide the scrawny arms and swollen bellies of China's hungry. It takes hot days when thousands shed their rags to see the effects of slow mass starvation. In villages like Chi Ho, a shady brown clump of mud. brick farmhouses twelve miles from dusty Hengyang, you see the famine. Two months ago, when there was still rice, Chi Ho had 140 inhabitants; now it has 80, the remainder having died or gone off to the city...
...ironic inhumanity of all this is that there is still food in Hunan. Scores of beggar children wander with chopsticks and empty rice bowls through Hengyang or lie exhausted in the gutters, but the city's restaurants still serve ten-course feasts for those who can pay. We ate such a meal one night as guests of the local newspapermen, whose slightly fantastic prelude to the banquet was the presentation of carefully wrapped samples of the clay, weeds, rice husks and grass on which people were starving not far from our table...