Mentoukou

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.

1973 May 31, Nym Wales, “‘I Was Back in Peking’”, in The New York Times, sourced from MADISON, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2024, page 41

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.

1978 February 8 [1978 February 2], “Abolished 'Indigenous Policies' of Gang Denounced”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 27, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 14