Word: kaoliang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Them Eat Kaoliang!" By 1946, Lin's tactical target was the northeast of China, where the Japanese had built up a thriving industrial base during World War II. The Russians, who had pounced like vultures at war's end, were busily dismantling the best of the Japanese factories when Lin and his 150,000 men arrived, but Lin sent cadres into the countryside with the order: "Take off your leather shoes, lay down your office bags, put on the clothes of the peasants, and eat kaoliang [the coarse sorghum of Manchuria]." The lessons of Yenan were being applied...