Meaning of Mentoukou | Babel Free

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“The coalfields of Mentoukou and Chaitang, in the Western Hills of Peking, of Yuhsien, Yangyuan, and Hsuanhua in south-western Chahar, and of Kuangling and Tatung in northern Shansi are among the best known for their valuable Jurassic coal.”

“I looked out the window of the former Grand Hotel de Pekin and thought of the days before World War II when I waltzed there with assorted Nazi, fascist and Scandinavian diplomats. On the street the slow‐moving bicycles moved silently where once I listened to the shuffling pad‐pad of camels bringing coal from Mentoukou. On these streets on Dec. 9, 1935, desperate Peking students had declared war on all kinds of fascism (so had I) and marched to break the “white terror,” as they called it.”

“Under the private rule of Hsiehhokou brigade of Miaofengshan commune in the Mentoukou area, one work point per day was deducted from commune members who raised sheep. Furthermore, some communes and brigades would not allow the members to engage in "minor autumn crop harvesting" or to collect fodder grass in the mountains.”

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