Xichuan

Proper noun

Xichuan

1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
   • Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for...[1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China, New York: Holt, Rinehart...
   • The revolutionary masses of Hsichuan County have completed, three months ahead of schedule, the construction of a bridge across the (Huang) River.[1969 February 4 [1969 January 30], “New Honan Bridge”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 23, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial...