Note 13 — Chapter IV · PROVINCIAL, LOCAL, AND SPECIAL-AREA GOVERNMENT

Ts'ui Yün-ch'ang, Shan-pei Lun Kuo-hua (A Brief Sketch of Northern Shensi), Kweilin, 1939, p. 4-5. This author concludes that Communist rule worsened the economic status of the area. "Then there occurred the campaigns for 'the extermination of landlordism' and for 'division of the lands.' The result of such proletarian disturbances was an astonishing decrease of population, caused by massacre and emigration, and the devastation of much land." (p. 6.)