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A chronological, causal record of the resistance, major political crises, and contemporary truth.

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Chen Yi Executed by the Kuomintang Side

1950 ·Verified ·Importance III ·Sources 1 ·Taiwan

The program states that Chen Yi was executed after being held in custody for a period, in order to answer to the local people of Taiwan.

First X-Ray Machine at Shanghai Quyang District Hospital Was Bought and Donated at His Own Expense by Radiology Director surnamed Zhao in the 1950s

1950 ·Reported ·Importance I ·Sources 1 ·Shanghai

Hu Liren said that Zhao, father of his friend Zhao Jun and the first director of the radiology department at Quyang District Hospital, took gold bars from his home in the early 1950s and entrusted someone to go to Hong Kong to buy an X-ray machine, which was shipped back to Shanghai and donated to the hospital in the name of a gift, becoming the hospital's first X-ray equipment; this was recounted by his students at the memorial meeting after his death.

Author's uncle, despite excellent scores in the 1950s gaokao, was still assigned to an agricultural university in the northwest because of his landlord class status

1950 ·Reported ·Importance I ·Sources 2 ·Shanghai

The author's uncle scored excellently on exams at Shanghai No. 5 Middle School in the 1950s, but because his father was a fugitive landlord he could not attend university and was assigned to an agricultural university in the northwest; that school was located in a famine-stricken area where people starved to death. After he returned to Shanghai, his household registration had already been transferred out so he could not re-register there, and he ultimately returned to his hometown in Zhejiang to farm and live out his days.