Word: anhwei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather in the spring, from toppling over. In Honan, 5,000,000 farmers were battling swarms of insects, and six other provinces were plagued by plant fungus. Finally, last week, came official reports that "the worst flood of the century" had been raging through the provinces of Kiangsu and Anhwei, Fukien and Kwangtung, then over Honan, swirling down the North and West rivers toward heavily populated Canton (pop. 1,500,000) itself. Hundreds of thousands of townspeople were pressed into working on the embankments, and the dikes of Canton held...
...Yang, 34, was born in Hofei in Anhwei province, the son of a mathematician now teaching in Shanghai. He moved to Kunming when the Japanese invaded the north, and got his master's degree from National Tsinghua University. In 1945 he came to the U.S. (on a Tsinghua scholarship) and got his doctorate in 1948 at the University of Chicago. Since 1949 Dr. Yang has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where his office has a single decoration, a small picture of Einstein...
...Communists have mobilized all their resources of manpower. In Anhwei, where no rain has fallen for two months, 9,000,000 peasants, led by 3,000 Red cadres, dug emergency canals, lugged water on their backs to sprinkle 5,000,000 parched acres. In Honan, more than a million formed bucket brigades to bring water from the rivers to fields sometimes ten miles away. In Hunan, China's "rice bowl," 600,000 persons labored around the clock. In Shantung, all military units suspended drill and moved to the drought front. Thousands of schoolhouses were shut down, and in Honan...
Even the millions of Chinese who cannot read know the story these picture words tell when they see them written against a neighbor's name. Five years ago in the province of Anhwei, the Chinese Communists deprived the landlords of existence and redistributed the land among the peasants. Some time ago, as part of a plan to speed socialization, the Communists began reorganizing the Anhwei farmlands into cooperatives. In the village of Liuchiatsun a peasant named Liu resented the seizure of his tiny (three-acre) farm and carelessly talked of resisting. The Communists' answer was quick, final...
...China's alluvial Yangtze plains, recent Communist newspapers describe how peasants are selling farm implements and animals, in Anhwei province even their own children, in exchange for a decent bite to eat. In the Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief. Kiangsi daily admitted food riots in Sunwu county, where 20 peasants were killed or wounded when they tried to storm Communist storage granaries. The peasant resentment was so bad, People's Daily admitted, that...