Word: lolo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Szechwan's earthquake was mighty enough to rearrange the map of Szechwan. In the southern mountains, ancient home of the non-Chinese Lolo, Sifan and Miautse tribes, it opened a mile-long rent in a great mountain. The shaking mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...