Years of Red Dust
“It has been a year full of significant events for the young republic. The First National People’s Congress of China adopted the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong was elected Chairman of the People’s Republic of China. In April, a Chinese delegation headed by Premier Zhou Enlai attended the Geneva conference on a peaceful solution to the Korean question and the restoration of peace to Indochina. A new socialist construction project, the Xikang-Tibet Highway linking Yann ...with Lhasa and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway linking Xining and Lhasa, triumphantly opened to traffic.
The news of Bai Jie’s death in the Korean War came to Red Dust Lane in early 1953. A young nurse in the Chinese People’s Volunteers, she was barely twenty that year. According to her comrades-in-arms, Bai was hit by a stray bullet during a disorderly retreat. There was no possibility of recovering her body under the circumstances.
Her picture appeared in the city newspapers. Her noble deeds were lauded on the radios.MoreLess
The news of Bai Jie’s death in the Korean War came to Red Dust Lane in early 1953. A young nurse in the Chinese People’s Volunteers, she was barely twenty that year. According to her comrades-in-arms, Bai was hit by a stray bullet during a disorderly retreat. There was no possibility of recovering her body under the circumstances.
Her picture appeared in the city newspapers. Her noble deeds were lauded on the radios.MoreLess
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