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After Chiang's Kuomintang and the Communists came to bloody parting of the ways, Li and his wife joined the Long March in which Mao led 90,000 Communists 6,000 miles from Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan, escaping the pursuing Kuomintang. Li Fu-chun ably handled supply problems for the fleeing Reds. When the Communists finally reached Yenan 14 months later, only 25,000 of them were left. Li's wife has never fully recovered from the ordeal. Correspondent Edgar Snow dined with the Lis in 1936 and noted in his diary that Tsai Chang still...
Bricks for Jade. On the eve of the introduction of the commune system, Li Fu-chun warned that the economy was getting lopsided. Now, he said, there should be concentration on the farm problem. He was strongly supported by his fellow economists. One of them, hiding behind a pseudonym, wrote ominously: "We may gain heavy industry only to lose Man; we may even lose Man without gaining heavy industry...
...chun backed down. "I am an amateur," he said. "My views are only 'bricks thrown to obtain
...slowly, in the months that followed, Li Fu-chun and his economists discovered the dreadful truth: the statistics were not only inflated but often imaginary. It became obvious that the panicky kanpus had simply given whatever figures they thought the party line demanded...
...chun lamely explained that the national economy developed from "imbalance to balance and then again to imbalance," but always advanced "uninterruptedly in these wavelike movements." It sounded suspiciously like the capitalist theory of business cycles...