Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...period of Chinese resistance. With Chiang's capital removed to Chungking in interior Szechwan, a new motor road was completed across mountain ranges and torrid jungles to British Burma, which fronts on the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Other routes have been kept open from Yunnan to French Indo-China, the old Imperial Highway rebuilt across the deserts of Sinkiang to the Soviet border...
...potentially wealthy. Szechwan, with an area of 155,000 square miles (approximately the area of California), is rich in gold and oil, and its 52,000,000 people produce four harvests a year. Rice, wheat, barley, millet, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, beans and cotton make up its harvests. Neighboring Yunnan has tin, copper, iron and coal, and its mulberry leaves are juicy enough to nourish a great silk industry. Kweichow is up-tilted country, good for cattle raising and orchards...
...Shanghai from Japan flew Quentin Roosevelt, 19, grandson of the late President, to take off for a one-man expedition into Yunnan Province. Sophomore Roosevelt, on leave of absence from Harvard, expects to find rare manuscripts, skulls, golden monkey furs, hopes his plunder will be considered research work, enabling him to graduate with his class...
Steps were taken recently to collect books for distribution in western China, as a committee has been formed for that purpose following a letter from Mr. T. L. Yuan, the director of the National Library of Peiping, now situated in Yunnan, describing the need of books...
...much of China's cultural and industrial life and millions of refugees from the devastated eastern Yangtze valley set out to a new "New China" in the hinterland which had been frantically prepared during 18 months of war. The new "New China" is composed of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan, Kangsu, Sikang, Tsinghai, and the Chinese Communist-held province of Shensi-places which two years ago seemed to most Chinese as remote as Alaska is to New Yorkers...