Word: communed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the depth of personal contact, which could lead to what the Chinese press decries as "spiritual opium," meaning corruption from abroad. Two years ago, officials were stunned and alarmed by the case of Steven Mosher, 34, a Stanford University graduate student who lived for nine months in a commune in Guangdong province. Mosher collected extensive interviews, photographed thousands of documents shown him by village officials and took intimate pictures that provide a detailed and-from what Mosher has published so far outside China-unfavorable look at village life. Chinese authorities claimed that Mosher bribed villagers to get his material...
...White House banquet honoring China's Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, Shirley MacLaine enthusiastically recalled a trip to the People's Republic and a meeting with a nuclear physicist. Since being sentenced to a commune to grow tomatoes, she told Deng, the scientist said he felt much happier and more productive. Replied Deng politely: "He lied." Such rosy reports have been as predictable as the years of the Monkey, Pig and Goat, but from time to time, a Dengian antidote has been offered. Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and Richard Bernstein's From...
...martial law, the capital exuded an eerie calm. Shoppers were out early, as usual, queueing up at bakeries, butcher shops and vegetable stands, where few goods were available, also as usual. A Solidarity banner, evidently neglected by police, continued to hang bravely from a building on Paris Commune Place. Young mothers dropped off their children at nursery schools-the only educational institutions left open in all of Poland...
...have had little incentive to do when the stress was on collective sharing. In northeastern China's Liaoning province, the new individual responsibility system has reduced the power of autocratic local leaders so that now, reports the People's Daily, there is "less scolding and beating of commune members, less giving of blind directions and forced commands, and less wandering about without taking part in physical labor." In north-central Henan province, according to the People's Daily, the peasants' enthusiasm for private production has led them to buy fertilizer with the money they...
Under rigidly applied collectivism, the country's peasants were relentlessly encouraged to follow such Utopian precepts as "Love the commune as you would love your own home." In these more realistic times, Chinese agricultural officials confess that such precepts were unworkable. "The speed of development in the past was not very fast," admits Peking Ministry of Agriculture Official Liu Xu-mao. It seems to have accelerated now that China's peasants no longer must eat out of one big communal...