Word: shensi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Riches. Some day Shansi may be China's Pennsylvania (see map). The province is watered by tributaries of the Yellow River, which divides Shansi from Shensi. Shansi's rough mountains are heavy with anthracite and iron, and because lack of communications has so far meant limited exploitation, the coal-poor, iron-hungry Japanese want it more than any other inland province. The Chinese, who realize that losing it means surrendering their last talon-hold in North China, have hung on like eagles. Some of China's best fighting men are there, reports Reporter White: the hard-riding...
Three weeks ago it was reported that 300,000 Russian troops had moved into Sinkiang. Last week Japanese sources reported that China's four northwestern-most provinces-Sinkiang, Kansu, Ning-shia, Shensi-from which the famed Communist Eighth Route Army has kept the Japanese, are being systematically Soviet-ized. And from Paris came word that Russia is to transfer tanks, howitzers, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns captured in Poland by both the Red and German Armies across Russia and into China...
Compared with China's 24 provinces, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are easy to keep straight. There are Hupeh, Hopeh. There are Shensi, Shansi. There are also Hunan, Honan. To say nothing of Kansu, Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung (not to be confused with Kwantung, in Manchukuo).* When the Japanese renewed military operations in China on a big scale, they made things as Tweedledum as possible for U. S. campaign followers by going to work in Kiangsi...
Inside Red China, by the good-looking wife of Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China), describes four months spent in Yenan, former headquarters of the Chinese Soviet Republic (now the "Frontier Districts of Shensi, Kansu and Ningsia") and the Red Army (now the Eighth Route Army). Written a year after her husband brought out his sensational account of the Chinese Soviets, her book duplicates much of the material in his, but is more personalized, has more to say about the women leaders who survived the epochal 6,000-mile "Long March" (when the Communists retreated in 1934 from South China...
Most fascinating of new "New China's" educational institutions are those now operating at Yenan, "capital" of the northern, Communist-held territory. At Yenan now are the Anti-Japanese University, the North Shensi Academy (training school for guerrilla-war organizers), the Marxist & Leninist University, the Lo Shun Art Academy, the School of Dramatic Art (directed by Shanghai's top-rank cinemactress). There were few buildings in Yenan to house the schools but in the hard-packed loess hillsides, students gouged cave classrooms and dormitories (see cut). There 4,000 men, 1,000 women, more than there...