Word: kiangsi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Relax & Enjoy It. Hankow's Chang-chiang jih-pao reported on the gay life of the Suichuan District Party Committee in southwest Kiangsi province. By adopting the attitude, "Now that victory has been achieved, why shouldn't we enjoy ourselves a bit?" Party Secretary Chiao Erh-kung had "led a depraved personal life." Police Chief Lu Pin had "specialized in dinner parties for women guests," each time "spending the equivalent of the vegetable allowance of 70 members of his bureau." After squandering the bureau's entire budget (7,000 Ibs. of rice), Lu had embezzled party cash...
...people" were "demanding" his expulsion. It might not be long before Nuncio Riberi was escorted to the border, to join the swelling crowd of missionary priests and nuns being exiled by way of Hong Kong. Most notable recent exile was Bishop Gaetano Mignani, vicar apostolic of Kian in Kiangsi, deported for allowing the publication of two pamphlets exposing the government drive...
...troops entered Manchuria in 1929 in a dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railroad, he went along; his assignment was to recruit Manchurian volunteers for the Soviet forces. A year later, he slipped into the Shanghai underground, then went on to the interior to join the Chinese Red army in Kiangsi province under Mao Tse-tung. He led the vanguard of the celebrated Long March in 1934-35, which brought the Chinese Reds to the northwest around Yenan...
...tung, son of a Hunanese peasant, who, said Mao, "gave me neither eggs nor meat." Mao was once expelled from the Party Central Committee for opposing Moscow, led the Chinese Red army (with Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh) on the famous 6,000-mile "Long March" from Kiangsi to Shensi in 1935, last year became the ruler of the world's most populous nation...