Word: shan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came as a surprise to Rangoon, which had hitherto paid scant attention to the existence of the small and weak party. But between 1968 and 1971, a group of Burmese Communists who had been given ideological training in China set up a strong organization among the peasants of the Shan State. The resulting attack on Kunlong ended in a standoff after six weeks. The B.C. P. withdrew east across the Salween River to the primitive Wa States, where they regrouped their forces...
...illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 128 pages. Viking. $6.95. A predictable score of Grimm old favorites (samples: The Fisherman and His Wife, The Robber Bridegroom) with color and black-and-white pictures from the 1909 Rackham edition. The original English translation by Mrs. Edgar Lucas is laced with "prithees" and "shan'ts." (The flounder says to the fisherman, "I shan't be good...
There are other signs of normalcy. A few weeks ago, a team of puffing European businessmen went down 2-1 at soccer to a pickup squad from Chung Shan University, which during the Cultural Revolution was the scene of violent clashes between rival Maoist factions. Currently, one of Canton's major problems, which seems less than earth-shaking to Western visitors, is an increase in petty crime. "There are class enemies who conduct sabotage activities," says Tseng Chen-cheng, a local Communist Party vice chairman. "Some of them tell our young people: 'While you are young, you must...
...walked past Whangpoo Park, which until 1928 bore the sign, NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED. The main part of Chung Shan Road pulsates with exercisers: sword dancers, slow-motion shadowboxers practicing the ancient art of tai chi chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only...
Finally, at No. 17 Chung Shan Road, there stood the gray stone building where TIME and LIFE had their offices on the sixth floor. I peered in through a grille and saw huge portraits of Lenin, Marx and Mao. The heavy bronze gates in the doorway of the building looked just the same. Even the faded gold mosaic of the lobby was just a shade grimier. Peering into the vestibule, I could see the rheumatic old elevators, still alive but having more difficulty than ever getting upstairs...