Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nirvana Postponed. China's economy continues to suffer from the dislocations created by the great leap forward. The People's Daily recently acknowledged that production of coal, iron and steel is "still unable to meet the demands." Accordingly, in the key provinces of Yunnan and Hupeh, Mao's government early last month reintroduced work norms and extra pay for "overfulfillment of the quota"-devices that had been abandoned in the heady, doctrinaire days of the great leap. This doubtless shocked the ideological zealots who only a few months ago were boasting that the slavery of the people...
According to the Red Chinese themselves, 1958 was a bumper year down on the communal farm: 375 million tons of grain produced, more than double the 1957 output. The farmers of Yunnan province were reported floundering in grain. With storehouses bulging, tubs of wheat had to be crammed inside peasants' homes...
...fullscale, Hungarian-style uprising. He wants to be ready to support it-as the West was not ready to support Hungary. Says he: "The Hungarian type of revolt is not only possible in the future, it has been happening increasingly in Sinkiang, Tibet, Chinhai and on the borders of Yunnan and Szechwan . . . The time will come for a national revolution against Communism...
...force netted and scatter-gunned the exhausted birds or snared them with long, gum-tipped bamboo poles. At last report 310,000 sparrows had fallen in Peking alone, and an estimated 4,000,000 throughout the rest of Red China. The national hero was Yang Seh-mun, 16, of Yunnan. He had killed 20,000 sparrows by sneaking around during the day locating nesting trees. At night, China Youth proudly reported, he then climbed trees and strangled whole families of sparrows with his bare hands...
Nationalist days was the tough, tight-fisted war lord of Yunnan province, took a crack at the most sacrosanct foreign idol of all. Said General Lung, now a vice chairman of Red China's National Defense Council: "It is totally unfair for the People's Republic of China to pay all the expenses of the Korean War. The U.S. has given up her claims for loans she granted to her allies during the first and second world wars, yet the Soviet Union insists that China must pay interest on Soviet loans." He would like to know, Lung added...