Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argued that though China might get the same goods anyway through Russia, the added delay and cost retarded Chinese industrialization and imposed a strain on the trans-Siberian Railroad. The British retorted that most Western goods are transshipped by sea at Gdynia, Poland, are sent in Communist bottoms to Shanghai, bypassing Hong Kong...
Correcting the Wind. Last week, in obedience to Mao's strictures, Red China's fourth cheng feng ("correct the wind") campaign was in full swing, and the flowers of criticism were springing up like dandelions. In Shanghai long-leashed newsmen publicly demanded that they be given "facilities" to report "actual situations" in the local bureaucracy, and in Peking emboldened students called for the withdrawal of the Communist control group in Peking University. (This development so unnerved the university's dean that he threatened to resign.) Meantime, all over China party dignitaries dutifully turned to toil...
...served blunt warning to Chinese Communists on the mainland that the U.S. does not intend to let them build up jet bases on the mainland opposite Formosa without providing an effective counter-defense. Now within range of the Matador are new Red jet bases in the Shanghai-Canton-Hankow triangle and the coastal bases of Foochow, Amoy and Swatow, on the mainland 100 miles across the Strait of Formosa. Three days after the announcement, Red artillery units on the mainland opened up on the offshore island of Little Quemoy with the heaviest bombardment in months, as a way of showing...
...Foreign Service Officer McConaughy has seen his share of lights going out in Asia: in 1941, while serving in the U.S. embassy in Peking, he was interned by the Japanese, released the following year. After a swing through Latin America he returned to China as U.S. consul in Shanghai, closed down the post in 1950 after the Communists had moved in. Principal current aim and ambition: to keep the lights burning brightly in Burma...
With food already scarce, Red China's population of 630 million is increasing by an alarming 15 million every year. This not only means extra mouths to feed, it means taking time off to feed them. In one Shanghai textile mill alone 7,000 men and women workers produced exactly 7,000 children during the seven years of the law. In another factory, 17% of the women got pregnant twice within one year...