Word: kwangtung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work trying to plant winter vegetables and fast-ripening varieties of wheat. Said Radio Peking: "Sowing had to be carried out a second, or even a fifth or sixth time to wrest a harvest when the shoots were killed by scorching sun or floods." Reported one refugee from Kwangtung province: "Everybody is half dead in my village. They work from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and all they get is seven ounces of rice and a few sticks of vegetables...
...tide. Red China's masters have switched the line to read "plant more and harvest more." are plugging a crash vegetable-growing program. Kiangsi province has ordered 480,000 civil servants to the farm, Shansi province sent 400,000 "retrenched" industrial and dam workers to the countryside, and Kwangtung province promised 1,000,000 laborers who had "blindly immigrated to the cities." To remedy the fertilizer shortage, commune dwellers are being urged to raise pigs for their own profit, following the slogan: "More pigs, more fertilizer; more fertilizer, more grain; more grain, a future infinitely beautiful...
...years ago, Kou had been a carefree student, the son of a small landowner in Kwangtung Province's fertile Chungshan County. Then the farm was requisitioned to add to the giant Ku Cheang commune. Parents and children were marched off to different work barracks. With five other men and boys, Kou was assigned to a one-room...
...section foreman was shouting "Get up!" and punctuating each command with a kick in the belly. Wong tried to rise but could not. On his field telephone, the foreman summoned seven members of Mao's militia-big, well-fed northern men chosen because their ignorance of the Kwangtung dialect isolates them from the peasants they bully...