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...Liberate the Southwest!" [May 19] you write that a Chinese proverb underlining the independent spirit of the Szechwanese goes, "In Szechwan the dogs even bark at the sun." Actually, the proverb is generally used to indicate provincialism, and refers to the fact that Szechwan, being surrounded by mountains, does not enjoy the sun for long periods. But TIME is to be congratulated for using Chinese proverbs typical of Chinese thinking-even though their meaning be tailored to the story in question, perhaps a case of Chang kuan Li tai-"Li wearing Chang's hat"-in other words, the right...
...When there is chaos in China," says an old Chinese proverb, "it strikes Szechwan first; when there is peace, it comes to Szechwan first." Last week chaos ruled in the southwestern prov ince of Szechwan. Peking wall posters reported that an extraordinary - and almost unbelievable - total of 10,000 persons had been killed or wounded in four weeks of fighting involving ma chine guns, hand grenades and poisoned drinking water. Among the casualties were 200 Maoists drowned in the Yangzte River on the way to a rally, the victims of Red Guards who had defected from Mao's Cultural...
...agriculturally self-sufficient, Szechwan has a long tradition of rebellion against central governments. It has often proved a handy retreat for Chinese rulers in trouble, from the Emperor Ming of the 8th century to Chiang Kai-shek in the 1930s. So independent are the Szechwanese, that, as one Chinese proverb has it, "in Szechwan the dogs even bark...
...laws of the emperor yield to the customs of the village," says a venerable Vietnamese proverb, reflecting the ancient importance and autonomy of the unit in which 80% of South Viet Nam's 16 million people live. Well aware that the proverb carries more importance than ever in the struggle with the Viet Cong to win the countryside, the Saigon government this week launched Viet Nam's most meaningful and democratic village and hamlet elections in modern times. Throughout Viet Nam, thousands of peasants entered polling booths built of bamboo matting and black cloth to elect their...
...velt muz men mer yoytse zayn vi far Got aleyn, says the Yiddish proverb. "The world is more exacting than God himself." It is a maxim that runs like a black thread through the fabric of American Jewish literature-from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Saul Bellow's Herzog. In Meyer Meyer, Author Helen Hudson follows the pattern by providing a translation of her own. In the secular cities of the earth, grace is granted not to those who reach up to God, but to those who reach...