Word: wu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Hsia Tou-yin, warlord of Wu's native Hupeh province, had given Wu a job as tax collector. Wu went to work in Hankow, "the Chicago of China," and within six months had balanced Hankow's municipal budget. This achieve ment attracted Chiang Kai-shek's interested attention. In 1932 Chiang appointed the 28-year-old Wu mayor of Hankow...
...20th Century brought chaos to China (and to most of Asia) as a habitual way of life. K. C. Wu-a technician of order who was also a democrat and a Christian-had begun his career of fighting chaos...
Ordeal by Fire. In 1936, when the swollen Yangtze threatened to flood Hankow, Mayor Wu conscripted 30,000 coolies to repair a broken dike, trained machine guns on them to keep them from quitting; for 13 days & nights he stayed atop the dike directing their work. Floods more terrible than the Yangtze were threatening China. The Japanese conquest forced Chiang's armies back into the interior. On the morning of Mayor Wu's 35th birthday, Oct. 25, 1938, Hankow, then Chiang's center of resistance, fell to the Japanese...
China's government-along with millions of people who bore whole industries, piece by piece, to safety-moved back country to the gorges of the Yangtze. Wu became mayor of Chungking, the new capital. For two years, the city (whose wartime population grew from 200,000 to well over 1,000,000) stolidly endured one Japanese air raid after another...
Stolidly, fire fighters and policemen remained above the ground in the city during the raids. Mayor Wu was usually in their midst, dashing from fire to fire, from crisis to crisis. He became a sort of glorified La Guardia; to Chungking's Chinese -and to many an American-he became a hero...