"WW2 Far Eastern Front: The Battle of Rice" Topic
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Tango01  | 12 Feb 2024 5:05 p.m. PST |
"All last week men killed each other in northeastern Hunan. They were fighting for no new victories to write on regimental records. They were fighting simply for rice.
Hunan—a round-bellied province that hangs like a bubble suspended from the lake country of the middle Yangtze* is famous for the most beautiful women, the most peppery food, the most savage fighting peasantry in China. More than anything else it is famous as the rice-bowl province of China. Its lush wet fields produce nearly 10% of Free China's stupendous annual 47-million-ton rice harvest.
All through August, under the blue skies of Central China, the blue-robed, sun-browned peasants had watched their rice fields slowly darken in green, then fade to the color of straw. Within their firm husks the grains of rice had whitened and hardened. It would be a good harvest. Prices were dropping in anticipation…"
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