Meaning of Tongxu | Babel Free

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A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.

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“To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.”

“Kaifeng was raided by the Chinese twice, who remained there long enough to smash up the Japanese puppet organizations. They also dislodged the Japanese from the nearby town of Tunghsu and disrupted the Lung-Hai Railway, cutting the Japanese line of supply to Kaifeng.”

“Zhang Jiannong has been working the same cotton field in Tongxu County, Henan Province, for the last twenty-two years — a half-acre plot leased to him after the break-up of the People’s Agricultural Collective in 1982. He pays $27 a year as an "agricultural tax" on his plot, and no property tax for his house. All of the 400 farmers in his village in the Yellow River floodplain grow cotton on plots of roughly the same size in rich alluvial soil. Ancient irrigation canals still water the area. Heavy rains come in the summer.”

“Villagers said the guards had been sent by officials of Tongxu County, which includes Zhushigang.[…] A person answering the telephone at the Tongxu County government offices said he did not know anything about the demolition.”

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