Word: riceland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other millions like Ah Teng. Red leaders in Hankow proclaimed flood relief along the Yangtze as the party's most urgent task. Red armies sloshed southward across swamped fields, heavy guns sinking into the mud. There were mass levies of peasants to shore up dikes and save the riceland. Seven women who each toted more than 70 crates of mud in a nightlong fight against the waters were acclaimed as "flood labor heroes...
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