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3 –269 Plenty of trade: Shaanganning Border Region government report, Apr. 1941, CASS vol. 2, pp. 72, 76. Teng Pao-shan: Jin Cheng, in Biographical Literature Pub., vol. 2, pp. 217–45; Xiao Jingguang, pp. 258–63. 1941 report on salt: CASS vol. 2, pp. 71–2. “second-biggest source”: 19 July 1941, Xie Juezai, p. 329. “Transporting salt”: Xie Juezai, pp. 322–3.

4 –270 “Today”: 19 July 1941, Xie Juezai, p. 328. Mao told them flatly: Mao to Xie, 6 and 22 Aug. 1941, in Mao 1984, pp. 176–8, 186–8; cf. Xie Juezai, p. 332. Lindsay: Lindsay Hsiao-li, unpublished memoirs, pp. 372–3; id., interview, 22 Oct. 1995; cf. NA, WO 208/318 (M. Lindsay to M. Hall). In Nov. 1941: “Shaanganning Border Region,” pp. 7–9. Mao public show: ibid., pp. 1–6. What the regime did: ibid., pp. 11–15, 119, 128–37.

5 The answer was opium: contemporary publications, newspaper reports, Nationalist generals’ telegrams to Chiang, and photographs of identity cards the CCP issued to opium dealers, in ZS vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 217–71. “Revolutionary Opium War”: interviews with Yenan veterans, Oct. 1995. “Special Product”: Xie Juezai, pp. 587, 589, 600; cf. Chen Yung-fa 1995; Wang Enmao, vol. 3, p. 422; interviews with Yenan veterans, 12 Sept. 1994; Oct. 1995. “It did happen”: interview with Shi Zhe, 28 Oct. 1995. Russian asked Mao: ORK, 2 Aug. 1943. 30,000 acres: contemporary investigation report, in ZS vol. 5, no. 3, p. 257. “Ask Chiang to stop”: Mao 1993b, vol. 2, pp. 335, 355. “cited … alongside Marx”: ORK, 27 Apr. 1945.

6 9 Feb. 1943: Mao 1993b, vol. 2, p. 426; cf. Mao 1993c, p. 156. Russians estimated: Panyushkin, p. 278; Ovchinnikov, pp. 69–70 (Fitin to Dimitrov, 29 Sept. 1943). “very rich”: Xie Juezai, pp. 584–5 (6 Mar. 1944), p. 600 (9 Apr. 1944). “several dozen dishes”: Wang Enmao, vol. 3, p. 299; YQD, p. 197, Central Party School, vol. 1, pp. 120–1, 236. “Mao has grown fatter”: Jin Cheng, in Biographical Literature Pub., vol. 2, p. 232. Steps to improve: e.g., 16 June 1943 at Politburo, Mao 1993b, vol. 2, p. 446; cf. Mo Wenhua, pp. 392–8. Mao later admitted: 24 Apr. 1945, YQD, p. 3.

7 Meat ration: Xie Juezai, p. 581 (26 Feb. 1944). Xie’s diary: 9–16 Oct. 1944, ibid., pp. 694–7.

8 Lippa, p. 265; ORK, 29 Sept. 1943, 10 May 1944.

9 –273 31 percent mortality: Esherick, p. 1056, n. 22. 60 percent: Li Weihan, p. 589. “never given proper attention”: Li Weihan, pp. 568, 587. Discuss in the winter: ibid. Public health: ibid., pp. 583, 587. 6 Mar.: Xie Juezai, p. 584. Mao wrote: Mao letters, 13 & 15 June 1941, in Mao 1984, pp. 170–1. Russian ambassador: Panyushkin, p. 278. Hospital official: Lippa, p. 179. Bride cost: JR, 2 June 1942; Hua 1981, pp. 56–7.

10 –274 1944 price: Xie Juezai, pp. 591–2 (19 Mar. 1944), cf. p. 452. Interest rates: Xie Juezai, pp. 696–7. All it said was: “CCP Decision on Land Policy in the Anti-Japanese Base Areas,” 28 Jan. 1942, Appendix 1, GS vol. 6, p. 5. Virtually no loans: Mao talk to senior cadres, Dec. 1942, in GS vol. 6, p. 94. Some Red areas: e.g. Shangdong, GS vol. 6, pp. 107, 117. Mar. 1944: Xie Juezai, p. 586. 22 Apr.: ibid., pp. 608–9. Mao vetoed dumping opium: ibid., p. 734; Wang Enmao, vol. 3, p. 422. “assist addicts”: Xie Juezai, pp. 485–6.

11 “two mistakes”: ibid., p. 734; cf. Chen Yung-fa 1995, p. 277. “indescribably squalid”: Aczél, p. 93. Swedish enthusiast: Myrdal, p. 29.

CHAPTER 27 The Russians Are Coming!

1 Churchill: Kimball, p. 287.

2 Izvestia: “Some Facts Concerning the Situation in China”; cf. ORK, 13 & 15 Mar. 1945. “Haven’t you liked”: ORK, 26 Feb. and 5 March1945.