Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again last week. Ferocious fighting appeared to be underway, resulting in heavy casualties. Both sides had widely differing accounts of how it began. Peking charged that Viet Nam had attacked China's southern border. The official New China News Agency reported that Chinese frontier guards in Yunnan province had repulsed the invaders after ten hours of pitched battle. The Viet Nam News Agency, accusing China of shelling border hamlets, claimed that Chinese troops had seized strategic positions in the north of Viet...
...rocket rounds at more than 100 targets across the border. In response, say the Vietnamese, they shelled the "Chinese land-grabbers." Without either confirming or denying that they provoked the latest fighting, Peking accused the Vietnamese of firing 10,000 rounds at "densely populated Chinese villages and towns in Yunnan and Guangxi." The Chinese claim Vietnamese infantry units have crossed the border in 90 places to lay land mines and plunder local settlements. Viet Nam recently showed off two Chinese prisoners to foreign journalists in Hanoi, while China's state-run television ran film clips of Chinese infantrymen near...
...most serious flare-up of border tension since May 1981, when China claimed that its soldiers had killed 150 Vietnamese troops in a single engagement. Throughout the week, according to reports from Peking, Chinese militiamen killed at least 37 Vietnamese soldiers in four or more incidents in Yunnan province. In the meantime, said the New China News Agency, Vietnamese gunners opened up on a district in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, damaging the primary school, the bank, the food-grain management office and a hospital...
...mountainous area of China near the Burmese border. Ordered by the U.S. consul to leave the region during an outbreak of civil war in 1927, the family made a 70-day trek through snowcapped mountains and malarial forests into Burma. The Morses eventually returned to work again in Yunnan, a remote region of China where cannibals roamed, Tibetan bandits burned villages, and the chief trade with the outside world was carried on by opium dealers. The nearest hospital was four weeks away by foot...
...cult. The small, 40-family work unit, whose herculean labors were said to have produced astounding grain yields on steep hills, was held up as a model for all of rural China. LEARN FROM DAZHAI was the slogan that covered walls and farm buildings from northeastern Heilongjiang province to Yunnan in the southwest...