China After Seven Years Of War (Paperback)

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHINA AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF WAR By HAWTHORNE CHENG SAMUEL ML CHAD CHU FU-SUNG FRANK TAG' CHARLES C H. WAN FLOYD TAYLOR - JEAN LYON Edited fry HOLLINGTON K. TONG Vice-Minuter of Information New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY ILLUSTRATIONS PACING EVERYDAY SCENE IN A TYPICAL CHINESE TOWN . 22 REFUGEES RETURN HOME AFTER THE CHANGTEH BATTLE ( 1943) 23 CHUNGKING, WHERE THE RIVERS YANGTZE AND CHIALING MEET 54 PISHAN MARKET-PLACE 55 WORKERS IN A COTTON SPINNING FACTORY . . . . 150 FARMER AND His WATER-BUFFALO 151 ADULT EDUCATION FOR THE WORKER 182 BRIEFING IN Two LANGUAGES 183 Jacket design and illustrations of this book from Chinese Ministry of Information; photographs by George Alexanderson. CONTENTS PAGE Foreword ............. vii THE WAR AND THE PEOPLE, by Hawthorne Cheng . i CHUNGKING: CITY OF MUD AND COURAGE, by Floyd Taylor ........... 31 PISHAN: PORTRAIT OF A SMALL TOWN, by Chu Fu-szmg 56 NEW HORIZONS FOR THE CHINESE WOMAN, by Jean Lyon ............ 65 MAN OF THE PLOW AND THE SWORD, by Charles C. H. Wm .......... 78 STUDENT LIFE IN CHINA, by Frank Tao ..... 101 WARTIME CHINESE LITERATURE, by Chu Fw-sung . . 125 PROGRESS TOWARD CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, by Chu Fiirsung ........... 148 CHINA'S LIFE LINE IN THE AIR, by Samuel M. Chao . 167 FLYING UNDER Two FLAGS, by Samuel M. Chao . . 184 AMERICAN KNow-How FOR CHINESE SOLDIERS, by Samuel M. Chao ........... 204 CHINESE COURAGE IN THE BURMA JUNGLES, by Hawthorne Cheng .......... 213 THE WAR AND THE PEOPLE By Hawthorne Cheng THE Chinese believe that all things under heaven work to gether for good. An evil comes but will not long stay. No matter how a story begins, it has a happy ending. During sevenyears of war, the Chinese have suffered misery. There have been broken homes and broken hearts. There have been separations and dislocations. There have been worries about food and about clothes and about innu merable things. The war years are not the first in which the Chinese have suffered. In their best times, they were afflicted with poverty. The majority of them are poor by birth. On top of poverty there have been floods, droughts, civil wars, each bringing untold suffering. All these calamities soon passed. The Chi nese rose after each, not only unbeaten but stronger through the discipline of hardships which, down the centuries, they have learned to endure and overcome. The present war has brought the worst of the worst to the Chinese people. Seven years is the longest that any evil has remained with them, but it has not been long enough to wear out people who for thousands of years have suffered hardships and privations, and have survived. This long war will end as all other evils have ended, and there will come a better day. Until it comes, the Chinese have the spirit to smile in the face of hardships and to carry on a spirit which has sustained them through the calamities of the seven years of this war as it sustained them through calamities of the past. 2 THE WAR AND THE PEOPLE It is the spirit of her teeming millions of farmers, from whom most of the five million men of China's army were drawn, and from whose fields comes the food for the army. It is the spirit of her laborers, her mechanics and engineers who have built China's wartime railways, highways, water ways, and other arteries of communication, and who work in China's arsenals to keep the guns supplied withammunition. It is the spirit of China's women as well as her men. The people of China, despite the stress and strain of war, have carried on. They continue to make love, to get mar ried, to give birth to babies and to support growing families on meager incomes. Seven years is a long time, during which many things can happen and many things have happened to Teng Chan. Teng saw the beginning of the war as a bachelor in Shang hai and Nanking, met and fell in love with a girl, and was married, lived through the worst of the bombing in Chung king and is now the father of two child