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Kweiyang

British  
/ ˈkweɪˈjæŋ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Guiyang

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Grim, cold, filthy Kweiyang, swarming with abjectly miserable refugees, was reprieved, and China with it.

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All trucks rolling into Kweiyang, the main transport center in southwest China, were ordered to stop moving until converted to charcoal burning.

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Kweiyang, in Kweichow Province, and Yiin-nanfu, capital of Yunnan, only 400 miles from the Tibetan frontier.

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But could the tide be rolled back in time to save Kweiyang, now the last forward U.S. air base?

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Kweiyang folk indulged in a kind of three-day gambling festival.

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