Word: yunnan
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...world is a wild, mountainous landscape thick with waterfalls. Banners aloft, the ambassadors of eleven nations march across it, bringing tribute to the Emperor of China: petrified wood from Yunnan, coral from Java, elephants from Annam, yaks from Tibet...
...Fire. Even more ominous than the military disintegration, if possible, was the weakening of civilian support. Manchurian landlords who had fled from the Communists were going back now, to accept whatever land the Reds would let them have. Parties of students were slipping away to join the Reds. In Yunnan Province, peasants were rebelling against further conscription...
General Tu studied his father's History well. In 1945, he put ancient Chinese tactics to good use to unseat (on the Generalissimo's orders) the old warlord of Yunnan Province, Lung Yun. Tu told Warlord Lung that Nationalist troops would merely be holding maneuvers in Yunnan's capital. Then he surrounded Lung's troops and disarmed them. When Lung was moved to a face-saving position as chief of the National Military Council in Chungking, he demanded punishment for upstart General Tu. The Generalissimo obligingly "banished" Tu to the Northeast China Command to direct...
...first mistook a bobbed-haired girl performer for Little Happiness, chased and lost her in a nearby theater. Then they turned on the studio itself-breaking equipment and furniture until the police arrived and nabbed ten of the gang. Still smarting, they marched to Little Happiness' home, on Yunnan Road, climbed up to his second-story flat, slapped his wife. But of the thin, sharp face of Little Happiness they found not so much as a smirk. He was elsewhere, in hiding...
...rumor "This is it" ran through Shanghai's ever-jittery streets. But the peasants in Szechwan and Yunnan provinces, getting ready for the spring crops, were undoubtedly less excited...