Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...products. The more ambitious among them seek out Western consumer items to hawk illegally; popular items include movie-sound track albums, English-language books or clothing patterns laboriously traced from tattered copies of women's magazines. Says one youth who illegally returned to Shanghai from a commune in Yunnan: "The basic rule is that anything Western sells. What do you want for those bell-bottoms...
...China was concerned, the war was over and China had won. In the mountainous southern provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi (Kwangsi) red and gold bunting festooned commune buildings, farmers plunked merrily on classical instruments, and firecrackers exploded in celebration. Divisions of the People's Liberation Army were marching home, and they were hailed as conquering heroes. In Viet Nam, the Hanoi Government proposed peace talks to begin this Friday in the war-ravaged town of Lang Son, and it seemed likely China would agree to negotiate. Earlier in the week, however, Hanoi radio announced that the nation was going...
...that the front-line units of China's huge, 3% million-man land army and those of Viet Nam's leaner but highly honed 615,000 troops were not embracing. At dawn on Saturday, Feb. 17, Chinese forces, massed more than 300,000 strong north of Viet Nam in Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces, loosed a massive artillery barrage on key border positions. Hardest hit were Vietnamese concentrations around the cities of Lao Cai, Muong Khuong, Cao Bang, Lang Son and Mong Cai. The People's Liberation Army, untested in major formation warfare since it crossed the Yalu River in October...
While the Vietnamese have deployed around 100,000 troops along the frontier, it is the size of the Chinese buildup that has caused most concern. Along the frontier in the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi and Kwangtung, the Chinese have gathered an estimated 150,000 troops, some of them rushed from positions facing Taiwan. In the past week or so, the frontier forces were bolstered by the arrival of several hundred Chinese fighter planes. At the same time, Chinese forces along the Soviet border in Sinkiang province went to full alert, and civilians were reportedly being evacuated from those areas. Said...
...born in 1916 to a landlord of the Yunnan province in southern China. She quit college in Peking and joined the Communists after Mao's Long March of the mid-1930s. She soon met Teng, one of the party's rising stars. Teng had apparently abandoned a first wife, betrothed to him by his parents without his consent, and had lost his second wife, perhaps during the Long March. He and Cho Lin were married...