Word: honan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south, major fighting has been reported in Szechwan, Honan and Kwangsi provinces, and travelers returning from the Canton Trade Fair-which ended last week-say that there is fear of an invasion of the city by armies of dissident Red Guards. In Fukien, where there has been trouble in the past, five Peking officials sent to investigate new violence were kidnaped by local Red Guards. Newspapers in Anhwei report that Central Committee directives are being derided and that Mao supporters are under open attack. In Shantung, according to Peking radio, "people claiming to be revolutionaries" are stirring up "trouble...
...place his bet on the army. Yet there are questions about the army too. It is divided into political factions, and half of its officers have been hauled up before one type of revolutionary committee or another and scolded for not being Red enough. Red Guards in Honan province last week complained that soldiers stood by while anti-Maoist workers beat them...
...Manchuria were said to have wrecked eight schools used by the Maoists as bases. The posters described clashes in Peking and Shanghai, claimed that fighting took place in Shantung in east China, in northwestern Sinkiang, the site of China's nuclear installations, in Inner Mongolia and in Honan, the largest wheat-growing province. Not surprisingly, the People's Daily last week warned that "anarchism" suddenly threatened to undo all the gains of the Cultural Revolution...
Nation's Birthplace. China's 22 provinces baffle foreigners because so many of them sound alike (Honan, Hunan; Kiangsu, Kiangsi; Shansi, Shensi). Most typical of the northern provinces is perhaps Hopeh, which contains the capital city of Peking. From its rugged border with Manchuria, the province runs down in a shelving plain to the shallow Gulf of Chihli. Very few eminent Communists come from Hopeh or its neighboring province of Shansi, which is noted for sacred mountains and such spectacular cave temples as Yun Kang, where a mile-long cliff face has been chiseled into thousands of Buddhist...
...communes put up their own money to buy equipment for new mines, factories, furnaces. Foreign visitors saw cotton gins made of boxes and old boards, textile machinery with wooden parts. In Sinkiang, when they ran out of steel for a pipeline, it was finished with bamboo tubing. A Honan commune owning 6,000 pigs and producing 300,000 Ibs. of fish a year, saw it all taken by the state while the workers' total daily diet was limited to dough buns, a few ounces of chopped cabbage, and a single dish of noodles...