Word: shensi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roads and railways clear across China at a cost of $50,000,000 gold. It might start from Peiping, dangerously near the Manchukuo border and greedy Japanese eyes; or it might cut southward through the mountains along the Yellow River basin. It might arrow straight west from Nanking to Shensi Province and thence along the overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into a marsh. Part of the project...
Muddy water was not China's only trouble. Last week word came from Shensi Province in the northwest, drought and famine-ridden for five years, that peasants were taking to cannibalism...