Word: kiangsi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animals, in Anhwei province even their own children, in exchange for a decent bite to eat. In the Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief. Kiangsi daily admitted food riots in Sunwu county, where 20 peasants were killed or wounded when they tried to storm Communist storage granaries. The peasant resentment was so bad, People's Daily admitted, that "most party workers are either afraid of offending the masses, or were blamed by their own families...
...next ten years he fought war lords, bargained with those he could not defeat, stalled off the Japanese, chased the Communists out of Kiangsi on their famed Long March, and forged a nation. Although many liberals around the world, infatuated with the heady reports of the fine new Communist world in Russia, were already denouncing Chiang as "counter-revolutionary," in those ten years China made more progress than it had in the previous hundred. Chiang broke the economic shackles which the foreign concessions had fixed on dismembered China. For the first time, Chinese felt themselves a modern nation; there...
Communists Outfought. The Communists withdrew southward to Kiangsi and Hunan Provinces, boldly resumed their offensive while the Japanese were striking in Manchuria in 1931. Chiang alienated many a patriotic student and intellectual when he turned the Japanese invasion over to the League of Nations and prepared to turn his armies on the Communists instead of the Japanese. "If China ventures to fight the Japanese," he said, "the Communists will attack from the rear and chaos will quickly overtake the whole country...
...high life, went to Berlin to study, met Chou En-lai and enlisted in the Communist Party; in 1925 he went to Red Eastern Toilers' Institute in Moscow, went back to China to command a Kuomintang division (though a secret Communist), eventually slipped down to the Hunan-Kiangsi border to join with Mao and begin forming the Red army. Countless Chinese peasants believed legends that Chu Teh could fly, that he "stands higher than the tallest tree," could with a wave of his hand bring flood or fires on opposing armies. Married: three times (his present wife...
Released when Chiang Kai-shek negotiated a nonaggression pact with Russia in 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo was put in charge of rehabilitating a big district in Kiangsi which had been under Communist rule, and of reindoctrinating its 3,000,000 inhabitants. Even his detractors admit he was outstandingly successful. During World War II he ran a training school for political officers in Chungking. In Shang hai in 1948 he directed the drive to stabilize the gold yuan ; hundreds of black marketeers were arrested. His enemies say dozens were summarily executed...