Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China last week was like a ravenous giant. From the snowy plains of Manchuria to the humid bamboo forests of Yunnan, from the sky-merging grasslands of Central Asia to the dimly neon-lit waterfront of Shanghai, there was only one totally absorbing subject-food...
...brought by the monsoon rains lap under the stilted houses and over the 500 miles of meandering dirt roads. Years ago, someone built a railroad station in Savannakhet, but never got around to building a railroad. The Me kong River, crashing down from a canyon in China's Yunnan province, then slowed by silt and sewage on its 1,600-mile run to the South China Sea, is the principal means of transportation and is known as "the soul of Laos." In normal times, the principal exports are illegal opium and a little tin, but in 1960, the main...
Their odyssey began back in 1949, when crusty old General Li Mi, retreating as the Red Chinese armies advanced into Yunnan province, led some 10,000 of his men across the border to safety in Burma. General Li soon arranged to have supplies (often U.S.-made) flown in from Formosa, launched harassing raids on the Red Chinese across the border. Unfortunately, his troops were equally willing to take on the Burmese, who complained to the U.N. Under pressure, the Nationalist government suspended its aid, and in 1953-54 General Li and some 7,000 guerrillas were flown out to safety...