Word: wuchang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maoists could hardly afford to leave Wuhan in the hands of their enemies. The fifth largest city in China, Wuhan (pop. 2,800,000) is really three cities-Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang-and is the Chicago of China-the transportation hub of the vast country. Its great double-decked vehicular and railroad bridge is the only span across the 3,100-mile length of the Yangtze between Nanking near the coast and Chungking in the western mountains. It is also one of Communist China's key industrial centers, pouring a quarter of the country's steel and producing...
Fifty years ago on the tenth day of the tenth month in 1911, the city of Wuchang on the Yangtze River was captured by a band of rebel followers of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen. It took another four months of fighting before the decadent Manchu empire was overthrown by Sun Yat-sen's republicans, but Chinese everywhere have always celebrated the "Double Ten" date as a national holiday...