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Chapter One

FORTY YEARS OF CHINA

By Hedley P. Bunton

CONTENTS


Chapter 1 The China We Went To, 1933
  Exploring the City
  Festivals and Places
   
Chapter 2 Learning Chinese
  Confucius
  Sun Yat-sen
   
Chapter 3 Early and Middle Thirties, 1933 - 1937
  New Life Movement
  Visit to North China
  East River
  Chiang Kai-shek and Japan
  Japan Attacks
   
Chapter 4 Japanese Bombs and British Opium, 1937 - 1938
  The Opium Wars
   
Chapter 5 Fall of Canton and Japanese Occupation, 1938 - 1941
  South China Invasion
  Military Occupation
  Relief Work and Rehabilitation
  Home Leave and Return to China
   
Chapter 6 Prisoner in my Own Home, 1941 - 1942
  A Problem of Supply
  Needs Provided
  Unexpected Hope
   
Chapter 7 Shanghai Interlude and Repatriation, 1942
   
Chapter 8 Return to Hong Kong and China, 1946 - 1949
  Canton Again
  Currency Problems
  Comunist Advances
   
Chapter 9 The People's Republic of China, 1949 - 1950
  First Impressions
  Real Communism
  Policy Towards Religions
  Permission to Leave
  Communism, Christianity, Convictions
  Trouble for Friends and the Church
  Controlling the Churches
  Overseas Church Leaders Invited
   
Chapter 10 On the Doorstep of China, 1958 - 1973
  Return to Hong Kong
Escapees
Internal Problems on the Mainland
Blooming and Leaping
Australian Visitors from China
The Years of Scarcity
Peking's Break with Moscow
Mass Exodus
Battle of the Flags
China's Nuclear Power
Cultural Revolution
Peking Celebration
Action and Reaction in Hong Kong
Mainland Aftermath
Freedom Swimmers
Tourists for the Mainland
Chinese Communist National Day in Hong Kong
The Lin Piao Mystery
Anti-Confucius Campaign
New Educational Aims
Education and Social Action
Hong Kong's Future
 
Chapter 11 The Thoughts and Acts of Mao Tse-tung
  Mao's Unorthodoxy
Enemies and Struggle
Mao and the People
Mao Thought in Action
The New Society
 
Chapter 12 Endless Revolution
Further Liberation
   
Postscript 1 1977 Updates
   
Postscript 2 Canton Revisited 1980
   
Appendix 1 Dynasties - People - Events
   
Appendix 2 Books to Read
   
MAPS AND PICTURES
   
Map A Map of China
Map B Map of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta, Macau, East River and Canton
   
Plate  1 Sz Fai Lau (Four Arches Street) Canton
Plate  2 Dragon Boat on Canton Canal
Plate  3 Dr. & Madame Sun Yat-sen (Soong Ching-ling)
Plate  4 The Marble Boat, Summer Palace, Peking
Plate  5 East Gate, Poklo City, Kwantung
Plate  6 Bamboo water wheel for irrigating rice fields East River
Plate  7 Canton burning in "scorched earth" policy against Japanese
Plate  8 Burnt out street in Canton
Plate  9 Burnt out street in Canton
Plate 10 Burnt out street in Canton
Plate 11 Inflated currencies
Plate 12 Mao Tse-tung and Dr. S.C. Leung in Yenan, 1940
Plate 13 Chou En-lai with comrades and Dr. S.C. Leung, Yenan, 1904
Plate 14 Hong Kong Island
Plate 15 Hong Kong Harbour and Kowloon
Plate 16 Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen on Nationalist China Day poster in Kowloon
Plate 17 Mao Tse-tung poster on communist building in Hong Kong
Plate 18 Communist National Day poster in Kowloon
Plate 19 Communist poster in Kowloon which includes the American table tennis player

 
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