Word: hsu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cried back their full-throated approval: "What was beautiful is now ugly! What was ugly is now beautiful!" It was International Women's Day, and no fewer than 10,000 Hero Women and members of Women's Groups were on hand for the big rally. There was Hsu Hsueh-hui, who lost both hands "in a fight with Kuomintang bandits" and now wears an artificial pair made in the Soviet Union "especially for shaking hands with other people." Captain Chen Chi-yen ("The party made a pilot of me, a 32-year-old peasant girl") was there...