Word: communed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came at a time when Peking's leaders are admitting that despite boasts of great success in increasing food production, Chinese agriculture in general is beset by far more problems than most Western analysts have realized. TIME'S Peking bureau chief, Richard Bernstein, recently visited another showcase commune that has fulfilled all the claims made by Peking. He then inspected a very different kind of commune that offered ample evidence of the failures of Chinese agriculture. His report...
...scene is like a calendar photograph displaying the splendors of rural life. At the Jin Ma (Golden Horse) commune on the lush Chengdu Plain of Sichuan province, the well-watered rice fields are emerald green. Thatch houses are surrounded by luxuriant clumps of bamboo and persimmon. Hundreds of teen-agers work at a prosperous collective silk-spinning plant near by. The peasants have radios, watches, bicycles, money in the bank, food on the table. Some of them treasure framed red certificates, whose bold black characters commend them for having achieved "wealth through diligent labor." Clearly, the Jin Ma commune...
...Connor explained that it was in many ways an eye-opening experience. "We went to a commune. People there are born, live and die on that commune. There's no picking up and moving in China. There's little night life. The people go to sleep at 9 p.m. and are up at 5 in the morning--to farm...
There is a dark side to Soviet psychiatry: its misuse as a political weapon to punish dissidents, in 1970 Biologist Zhores Medvedev, who now lives in London, was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the order of his city commune. He was released 19 days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian...
...pattern of special advantages that are enjoyed by officials in China's supposedly privilege-free society is revealed in case after case. Even the strict population-control regulations can sometimes be flouted by those with power. In Guangdong province, for example, one commune party secretary's wife gave birth to a fifthchild-three more than the maximum allowed. When the overly fertile wife and her husband were both elevated to higher ranks, local townspeople were prompted to express their envy. Cadres' lives, they complained, are filled with "double happiness-a growing family and promotion...