Word: kwangsi
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...lord of Kwangsi province during the 1920s and '30s, Li early urged a united front of Nationalists and Communists to fight the invading Japanese war machine, gave the weary Chinese their first major victory at Taierh-chwang in 1938. In 1948, as the civil war raged, Li fought China's first Western-style political campaign and nosed out President Chiang's favorite for the vice-presidency; months later, Chiang stepped aside to let Li have a chance at seeking peace with the Communists, then within sight of total victory. When Nationalist resistance collapsed, Li, a longtime critic...
...trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...
...that 2,000,000 workers had been pressed into flood-fighting work, carefully refrained from reporting death tolls (estimated to run into scores of thousands), but eulogized nine party members killed while fighting flood waters in Kwangtung. In Shantung the rains fell steadily for a fortnight; in Kwangtung and Kwangsi, in South China, it rained for 22 days. Shanghai reported the worst rains in 80 years...
...past month Radio Peking has acknowledged that 15 million people are facing starvation in eastern Hopei province, and reported the firing of two vice governors and the downgrading of eight local functionaries in famine-stricken Kwangsi province for failing to transport foodstuffs to a stricken area, thus causing 550 people to die of hunger...
...south China, Canton's Nam Fong daily reported famine in 50 out of 98 counties in Kwangtung, 20 out of 74 in neighboring Kwangsi, where some of the people were down to eating tree bark, grass and domestic pets. In Canton, 4,000 peasants were arrested for petty thefts like grabbing grocery parcels from pedestrians; the city's milk powder for babies was considered so poor and unusable that human milk was getting onto the market...