Word: szechwan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when providentially the government found a way to shift much of the blame: nature this spring took a cruel hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately to keep a wheat crop, badly weakened by unseasonably warm weather in the spring, from toppling over. In Honan, 5,000,000 farmers were battling swarms of insects, and six other provinces were plagued by plant fungus. Finally, last week, came...
...Khamba rebels were reportedly joined by equally fierce Amdowa and Golok tribesmen, spreading the fires of revolt the length and breadth of Tibet, and putting into the field against the Chinese Reds an estimated 100,000 warriors, who were carrying the fight to the Chinese provinces of Szechwan and Tsinghai as well as Tibet proper. The Red radio protested plaintively that "reactionary elements" from China itself had joined the battle...
...style uprising. He wants to be ready to support it-as the West was not ready to support Hungary. Says he: "The Hungarian type of revolt is not only possible in the future, it has been happening increasingly in Sinkiang, Tibet, Chinhai and on the borders of Yunnan and Szechwan . . . The time will come for a national revolution against Communism...
Researchers have been busy with the distinction between pain itself and a sufferer's reaction to it. Why does a Szechwan coolie grit his teeth and stifle his cries when, with no anesthetic, his leg is sawed off, while a Madison Avenue account man leaps out of his grey flannel suit at the first brrr of the drill on a heavily novocained tooth? Does a Chinese feel pain less than an Occidental? Probably not, according to Dr. James D. Hardy, who (with Dr. Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell) pioneered in measuring pain on a "dolorimeter" at New York...
...check. Dutifully responding to recent edicts for freer expression of opinion, deputy after deputy took the floor to criticize the government and urge reforms−more authority for local governments, higher wages, improved living conditions. One deputy revealed that rioting had broken out last year in heavily populated Szechwan province, but that it had been put down "effectively." Premier Chou listened impassively to criticisms of the regime he had just asked Formosan Chinese to accept, announced at the close of the congress that everyone "concerned will examine and correct shortcomings and mistakes...