Word: shensi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apart from what U. S. mission boards are doing, China hopes to keep its higher learning aglow by establishing four university centres inland, away from war zones, which most students may attend for nothing. Two such centres have already been started, at Changsha in Hunan Province, and Sian in Shensi...
...Eastern state which is dominated by Soviet Russia, though nominally a part of China, is (1 Hopei, 2 Shensi, 3 Shansi, 4 Afghanistan, 5 Outer Mongolia...
...lines, Edgar Snow was also the first to interview its leaders, the first to get photographs of Chinese Soviet life, the first to see its army in action, the first to get from its leaders a story of its 6,000-mile "Long March" from Kiangsi to Shensi. As a piece of journalistic enterprise Red Star Over China ranks with John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, tells a story scarcely less sensational...
...them by marching a mile ahead of his troops. First Soviet citizens to whom Snow spoke-a farmer and a local official-said cheerfully, "Hai p'a," which Snow thought meant "I'm afraid." Snow did not know what they were afraid of, finally discovered that in Shensi dialect "Hai p'a" means "I don't understand...
...mountains, through the swampy wastes of the grasslands in west China, twice missed annihilation by a hair in crossing treacherous, enemy-held rivers. On Oct. 20, 1935. 368 days after their evacuation of south China, the 20,000 survivors of the Red Army arrived in the small Soviet of Shensi...