Word: kiangsi
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When Mao succeeded Li as head of the Chinese Communist Party, he retreated with Communism's badly beaten bands to Kiangsi, in South China, where he managed to establish a Chinese Soviet. For three years, his headquarters were on Chingkan Shan, a nearly impregnable mountain stronghold which had been shared, uneasily, by bandits and Buddhist monks. Mao chased away the monks, welcomed most of the bandits into the party, and settled down to organizing the nucleus of the army which was to conquer China...
...inevitable, the Nationalist government pushed ahead with plans for a last-ditch stand. All ordnance plants in the Shanghai-Nanking area, much light industry and operational headquarters of civil and military airlines were being moved to Taiwan and Canton. The Communications Ministry was shifting personnel and gear to Kiangsi, Hunan and Kwangtung...
...Chiang, but got orders from Moscow in 1927 to become the Kuomintang's master instead of its ally. Through his agents, Chiang learned of the Moscow orders to Borodin almost as soon as Borodin himself. Chiang moved first. His army scattered the Chinese Communists into the hills of Kiangsi and Fukien Provinces. Michael Borodin escaped to Moscow...
...months of steady rains sent, the swollen Min River plunging through Fukien province, drowning a thousand people, flooding 50 towns. A million refugees crowded the highlands, mourning the loss of 80% of Fukien's rice harvest. Tungting Lake overflowed, ruining 50% of Hunan's rice. In Kiangsi Province, 60% of the rice was destroyed; in Kiangsu...
Princess Elizabeth, whose country house burned and who would have no trousseau, had nice news for a change. Nanking sent a Foreign Office man into Kiangsi province to watch over the production of a good Chinese porcelain service...