Citations:Shao-shan
English citations of Shao-shan
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- 1979, Terence P. Labrecque, The ‘Operational Code' Belief System of Hua Guofeng; Chairman of the Communist Party and Premier of the State Council, Peoples Republic of China[1], Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, →OCLC, page 17:
- In July, 1951, Hua was transferred to Hsiang-t'an as county Party secretary. Although technicially not a promotion, this new assignment afforded Hua greater opportunities, because Hsiang-t'an county was larger, encompassed a large municipality for greater exposure and, most importantly, included Shao-shan, Mao's home town. During this one year assignment, Hua concentrated on organizing and implementing mutual aid teams (MATs) and monitoring the counties' efforts in the Anti-Locust Campaign.
- 1983, Ruth Rendell, Speaker of Mandarin[2] (Fiction), New York: Ballantine Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 20:
- Through the arch, supported this time on a walking stick with a carved buffalo-bone handle, came the old woman with bound feet he had seen at the hotel in Shao-shan. Wexford gave an exclamation. Mr Sung stopped talking and said sharply, 'Something is wrong?'
'No. It just seems extraordinary. That woman over there, I saw her in Shao-shan yesterday. Small world.'
'Small?' said Mr Sung. 'China is a very big country. Why lady from Shao-shan not come Chang-sha? She come, go, just as she like, all Chinese people liberated, all Chinese people flee. Light? I see no lady. Where she go?'
- 2005, Nigel Cawthorne, Tyrants: History's 100 Most Evil Despots and Dictators[3], New York: Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 157:
- Mao was born on the 26 December 1893 in the village of Shao-shan in Hunan province.