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Nirvana Postponed. China's economy continues to suffer from the dislocations created by the great leap forward. The People's Daily recently acknowledged that production of coal, iron and steel is "still unable to meet the demands." Accordingly, in the key provinces of Yunnan and Hupeh, Mao's government early last month reintroduced work norms and extra pay for "overfulfillment of the quota"-devices that had been abandoned in the heady, doctrinaire days of the great leap. This doubtless shocked the ideological zealots who only a few months ago were boasting that the slavery of the people...
...Hupeh province, the Communists acknowledged that 106,000 volunteers had been called out to strengthen an "impregnable" water-retention project. At one Yangtze point, according to Radio Peking, 200 soldiers and 10,000 peasants formed a great human wall with mats on their backs, and managed to stand off the torrent for three hours. "People are confident," cried Peking's New China News Agency nervously, "that everything has been foreseen. There will be no panic, no hunger, nothing like the bad old days when there was no help from above...
When it comes to boasting of their "agrarian reforms," Chinese Communists like to point to Hupeh province in South China, and to the farmers of Hsi Shui county in particular...
...Claire, a lanky, plain girl of 18, met Father Luciano Negrini, an English-speaking Italian priest, 41 years old. A veteran of 15 years as a missionary in China, Father Negrini had been sent by his bishop to the U.S. to win friends and funds for the mission in Hupeh. He won so close a friend in Claire that last September U.S. ecclesiastical authorities sent him back to Italy under charges of "bad conduct...
Meanwhile, Hsia Tou-yin, warlord of Wu's native Hupeh province, had given Wu a job as tax collector. Wu went to work in Hankow, "the Chicago of China," and within six months had balanced Hankow's municipal budget. This achieve ment attracted Chiang Kai-shek's interested attention. In 1932 Chiang appointed the 28-year-old Wu mayor of Hankow...