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Only 90 coastal miles separate Canton and Hong Kong, but they are two whole worlds apart. In the last days of free Canton, before the Communists took over, Hsiao Tao-huang and her husband said goodbye to her sister Hsiao Ming, who was pregnant and was staying behind with her husband. At first the two families wrote occasionally, but then it became wiser not to. Recently in Canton, Hsiao Ming took advantage of relaxed Communist exit rules, went south to Hong Kong for a visit. She had to leave one member of the family behind, her husband. But she brought...
Next day Liu's name was brushed on the wall newspaper at the Public Security Station. Beside it was brushed the dreaded Hsiao Mieh...
...Monstrous Pyre. Since October 1949, when the Chinese Communists officially set up the Chinese People's Republic, Hsiao Mieh, by the account of Red China's press, has been written officially against the names of millions of Chinese. Foreign specialists, carefully sifting reports from refugees and other sources, estimate that at least 20 million Chinese have been deprived of existence, done away with, or otherwise disposed of. This does not include 23 million believed to be held in forced labor camps...
...parents or grandparents were landlords, because they were intellectuals, village elders, held religious beliefs, objected to Communism in principle, or simply would not cooperate. The Lo cadres were given target quotas for grain and confiscated land, so that even if a village had few landlords, a necessary percentage of Hsiao Mieh was written up. The announced objective was to redistribute the land among the peasants, and that was actually done. But the real purpose was to break the fabric of economic and social traditions of China's rural population...
...newspapers were not silent about arrests and executions in other parts of the country. Month after month the Hsiao Mieh totals were issued, almost always in round figures: 1,150,000 in the central-south provinces, 1,176,000 in "four administrative regions," 300,000 in the five northwest provinces, and so on. Said Lo calmly: "A large number of people with blood debts have been executed...