Word: kwangsi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared with China's 24 provinces, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are easy to keep straight. There are Hupeh, Hopeh. There are Shensi, Shansi. There are also Hunan, Honan. To say nothing of Kansu, Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung (not to be confused with Kwantung, in Manchukuo).* When the Japanese renewed military operations in China on a big scale, they made things as Tweedledum as possible for U. S. campaign followers by going to work in Kiangsi...
...little publicized spring campaign in North Hupeh-a campaign which the Japanese hoped would eventually land them in Chungking-resulted in the greatest Chinese success of the war since they defeated the Japanese at Taierchwang in the spring of 1938. Opposing the 100,000 Japanese was the crack Kwangsi Army of General Li Tsung-jen, hero of Taierchwang. General Li caught the Japanese spread out in the North Hupeh hills, threw them back with a loss of 27,000 men. Significantly, no farther than three or four miles back of the Japanese lines in this battle Chinese guerrillas were busy...
...Chiang, who has spoiled their plans. Even if they could get him they might not bring an end to Chinese resistance. Chinese national consciousness is becoming a hardy plant, and there are now other good Chinese generals, notably Li Tsung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi of the crack Kwangsi army, who might carry on. But the death of Chiang might mean a short period of struggle for power within China. With such a struggle for power going on, Japan could terminate hostilities without loss of Face...
...China's cultural and industrial life and millions of refugees from the devastated eastern Yangtze valley set out to a new "New China" in the hinterland which had been frantically prepared during 18 months of war. The new "New China" is composed of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan, Kangsu, Sikang, Tsinghai, and the Chinese Communist-held province of Shensi-places which two years ago seemed to most Chinese as remote as Alaska is to New Yorkers...
...associate secretary general of the Kuomintang for Cochin-China. At 25 he was a member of the Committee of Twelve (Chiang Kai-shek was another member) which directed the Canton insurrection during the Chinese revolution, Malraux's post being propaganda commissioner for the key provinces of Kwangsi and Kwangtung...