Word: kiangsi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring of 1929, while Mao Tse-tung pushed the Red Army through village after dirty village in southern Kiangsi, a few Harvard seniors sat down in the genteel dining room of the Signet Society. John Fairbank, lanky and round-headed, was among them. He listened carefully to Charles Kingsley Webster, a visiting professor from Oxford, as the garrulous old man suggested that someone become interested in sorting out the Chinese documents pouring into the West...
...missionary who taught Chinese at Oxford, sat down and began to memorize the characters. Thirty-eight years after that luncheon the ranking State Department East Asian man would invite Fairbank, as the most respected China historian in the country, to advise the U.S. Government on new trouble in Kiangsi and elsewhere. His byline would appear in seven national magazines and his lined, gently smirking face would peer out from the T.V. screen on two networks...
...desert of Sinkiang. The deposed mayor of Shanghai was hauled through the city's streets atop a trolley car, his head bowed and a placard tied about his neck. Armed battles between pro-and anti-Maoist factions roiled the streets of Canton, and north of the city, in Kiangsi province, an army of anti-Mao peasants was reported gathering-and daring Mao's Red Guards to come and fight them. Wall posters announced the suicide of onetime Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching and other officials, plus the attempted suicides of three other Mao enemies: Party Secretary...
South China is a much larger and more varied region than the north. The people of Kiangsi are the Scots of China and are said...
Nation's Birthplace. China's 22 provinces baffle foreigners because so many of them sound alike (Honan, Hunan; Kiangsu, Kiangsi; Shansi, Shensi). Most typical of the northern provinces is perhaps Hopeh, which contains the capital city of Peking. From its rugged border with Manchuria, the province runs down in a shelving plain to the shallow Gulf of Chihli. Very few eminent Communists come from Hopeh or its neighboring province of Shansi, which is noted for sacred mountains and such spectacular cave temples as Yun Kang, where a mile-long cliff face has been chiseled into thousands of Buddhist...