Word: kwangtung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking government recently imposed a 20% to 24% "war preparation" tax on peasants' crops, in addition to the 16% to 18% the state normally takes. In towns in Kwangtung and Fukien provinces, long lines of refugees have been seen clutching baskets and bags containing such items as mosquito netting, washbasins and cooking utensils. They are heading for resettlement in the countryside...
...their private plots at the expense of commune lands, or chop ping down state-owned timber, or with holding some grain from the government. To end this lax state of affairs, the regime has now sent thousands of "Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams" into the countryside. Kwangtung province alone has mobilized 50,000 industrial workers and 280,000 peasants for the heroic propaganda and purification push, or, as Peking labels it, the "purification of class ranks in the coun tryside." In effect, the campaign her alds the official wind-down of the Cultural Revolution, a finale that...
...with School. Armed with everything from bamboo poles to rifles, thousands of workers and students have clashed in bloody battles throughout Kwangtung province and the neighboring Kwangsi region. In the countryside, some peasants have torn up roads leading to their villages to keep out marauding bands of fighters. Repeatedly, during the past month, the railway from Nanning, Kwangsi's capital, to the North Vietnamese border, has been...
Ever since one Chum Ming sailed east from his native Kwangtung in 1847 to grow up with the country, California's Chinese have been victimized by their language problems (even today, no more than 40% speak fluent English), their fear of deportation, and traditional kowtowing to fate and station. San Francisco's youngest, brightest Chinese-Americans leave for the suburbs at a rate of up to 15,000 a year, and Chinatown has become a way station for immigrants and a ghetto of the old and unemployed poor...
...hardly matters: they have fewer and fewer at home too. The hub city of Wuhan is still in open rebellion, with army units probably aiding the anti-Maoists, the region's navy and air force units loyal to Peking. In Kwangtung province, adjoining Hong Kong, a key transshipment point for Viet Nam, thousands of troops of the 47th Chinese Army surround the capital city of Canton, while elements of three other armies have moved in, presumably to wrest parts of the province back from anti-Mao rebels who control it. Szechwan, China's chief granary, is torn...