Word: pai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in China the philosopher Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) had taken to writing in Pai-hua or spoken Chinese (as contrasted with written Chinese, called Wen-li). But even this could be read only by other scholars-the people at large were still illiterate...
Jimmy analyzed the letters he wrote for his coolies, found a vocabulary of about 1,000 Pai-hua characters sufficient to write all of them. Then he called a mass meeting. When he told the coolies they could do what coolies had never done, only 40 agreed to take a lesson. After four months they could write a letter, read news, and soon the canteen was a nightly humbuzz of coolies studying Basic Chinese aloud. Jimmy went to Paris to show other Chinese camp agents what he had learned about teaching coolies...
...unity in 1950. Meanwhile one vehicle of interfaith cooperation among China's religions was already functioning in the All-China Inter-religious Associa tion. Its board members : Roman Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin (now in the U.S.), Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen, Buddhist Abbot Tai Hsu, Moslem General Pai Chung...
...worst of all was ta-pai-tzu (malaria). This was the worst malaria spot in the world. The deadly mosquitoes infested the gorge. Exhausted, underfed and ragged soldiers had neither mosquito nets for protection nor quinine to combat the fever. Casualties from malaria were higher than from combat. Apparently well men trudging along the mountain passes would suddenly flush, complain of the fire in their heads, then die. It was months before adequate quantities of quinine reached them...
...firing swelled into a roar, echoing back & forth between the towering mountains. When it died away the Chinese, crouching in their hidden dugouts, could hear the sound of enemy trucks in the hills beyond rumbling up with fresh supplies. The Chinese who had held the front against ta-pai-tzu waited now for the next infestation in the valley...