Word: changsha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woodwork that no one is even sure how old he is; he was born, probably about 1898, in Yin-shan in rice-growing Hunan province, not far from Mao Tse-tung's own village. Liu and Mao, as sons of prosperous peasant families, attended middle school in Changsha, the largest city in the province, and a hotbed of radical nationalism. Though Mao was some four years older than Liu, they worked together on a left-wing student magazine, and by his early 205 Liu was a veteran of anti-imperialist student demonstrations. In 1920 a Soviet talent scout, encountering...
Career. Born in Hunan province, close by the village of Mao Tse-tung, of middle-class peasants. Not even official Chinese sources give a consistent birthdate, though he is probably 61. Mao and Liu attended the same normal school in industrial Changsha, early became Communists. By 1919 Liu had joined the staff of a Red newspaper edited by Mao Tse-tung, and been sent to the Soviet Union to study at Moscow's Far Eastern University...
...trip itself, said Bush, was uneventful. They maintained an altitude of between 500 and 1,000 ft., were waved at by groups of people, finally put down on an unused airstrip at the confluence of two unidentified rivers near Changsha in Hunan province...
...reckoned that the properties involved had been worth $41,900,000. Among the chief "cultural aggressors": the twelve Protestant "Christian Colleges," run by the United Board for Christian Colleges in China; the Peiping Union Medical College and Changsha's "Yale in China," which were beacon lights of modern medicine in China; and the Catholic schools and mission churches that have served 3,500,000 Chinese Catholics. U.S. religious bodies had supported and operated 504 hospitals, 905 dispensaries, 31 leprosariums, 40 nursing schools, 320 orphanages. Their mission schools had trained scores of thousands of Chinese, including many officials...
Tiny, thin-faced General Hsueh Yueh is known as China's Little Tiger. Thrice he clawed the Japanese at Changsha in 1941. Now, on tropical Hainan, the Little Tiger watches the weather with a prayerful eye. It is the season for fogs. Usually they roll in from the mainland, and this season they could cover a Communist invasion armada. To prepare Hainan's de fense, Hsueh says he needs "just one month more...