Word: tsinan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolution by talking of moderation. He hoped to allay the fears of capitalists and technicians, both Chinese and foreigners. New phrases which sounded like U.S. factory slogans urged workers to "study technique and raise production efficiency, cherish your implements and save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that production may be increased." Within Communist ranks, leaders announced "self-examination conferences" for "correction of leftist tendencies...
...swirled about the city, wiped out upwards of a quarter of its Nationalist garrison in bitter fighting, then bypassed and isolated the remainder. Now the Communists were striking 100 miles farther south, toward the mud-laden Huai River, last organized defense line before Nanking. Suchow might become another Tsinan or Mukden. If the Nationalists followed their former tactics, they would sit there waiting for death...
East of Taiyuan, General Chen Yi, conqueror of Tsinan, finished mopping up Shantung province and formed for a southward drive on Suchow, main Nationalist stronghold across Shantung's southern border...
...Communists swarmed over Tsinan's business district, where Wang's reserve munitions were stored. Their plainclothes grenade squads blasted the Gate of Perpetual Safety and smashed into the last Nationalist stronghold...
...When Old Friends Meet." The Nationalists had lost more than a city of 600,000. Before the fall of Tsinan, Communist tactics had been to stick to the countryside; now they were ready to accept responsibility for one of China's richest provinces...