Word: tsao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese artillery, which has lobbed 575,000 shells into Quemoy since August, has posed nightmare problems to Director Tsao Yi-fan, 48, and Editor Huang Pang-fu, 35. Three months ago Cheng Ch'i's two-story headquarters in downtown Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite...
SUMMER had broken, and the slim cedars along Quemoy's roadways bent before the first buffeting gusts of autumn. In the fields, the silver, feathery heads of mao-tsao, a grain used for fuel and fodder, swayed like the plumes of medieval knights. At night the moon was almost full, and the pearl and coral-colored bluffs loomed like phantoms above the beaches, pounded by a foamy sea. In other times it was the loveliest of seasons, it was the loveliest of sights. But this year autumn on Quemoy was a nightmare...
...Hong Kong rumors centered around the head of a Chinese journalist named Tsao Chu-jen, who has a reputation for being both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Tsao had known many prominent Chinese on both sides before the Nationalists were driven from the mainland, had written a book about the generalissimo's eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Believing that there was no future for an independent Formosa, and that the best thing for all Chinese was a negotiated settlement with the Communists, he got an encouraging go-ahead from Peking, then wrote to Chiang Ching-kuo, the generalissimo...
...heavy machinery. They will doubtless hear much of the claim, advanced a few weeks ago by the Chinese trade mission to Britain, that ?100 million worth of trade could be done between the two countries in the coming year if strategic controls were abolished. The impression left by Mr. Tsao in London last month was that Britain would have to accept remarkable quantities of preserved eggs, bristles and feathers...