However, her accent did not sound like she came from northern China.
She led military campaigns against the people of northern China.
They had also become a major power broker in northern China.
And there was the vacation they took together to northern China.
The 1876 famine alone in northern China killed up to 13 million people.
It has been thought of as a dividing point between northern and southern China.
A third and smaller wave came after the 1990s, mostly from northern China.
For someone arriving from northern China, the towns around here feel like the free world.
Northern China in the late 1940's was a harsh, remote place.
She was a peasant from northern China with little schooling.