Word: dairen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children from stampeding horses. These stalwarts are celebrated in story and song throughout China as worthy examples for study and emulation. Recently, a new hero has joined the roster. His name is Chang Yu-liang, whose deed far beyond-and below-the call of duty began on the Dairen sports ground. Chang was chatting with some friends when he heard cries for help. The People's Daily describes what happened next...
...Chang dashed outside, where he saw a crowd by the cesspool beside the public toilet, and a peasant lying on the ground, his face blue, no longer breathing. These people were members of a production brigade of one of Dairen's suburban communes, who had heeded Chairman Mao's great call to grasp revolution and boost production, and had come into the city to collect manure...
Last week the New China News Agency was trumpeting the achievements of 15 young students from the Dairen Mercantile Academy in Manchuria who decided to do just that. They had to see Mao, but the distance from Dairen to Peking is 600 miles. "They recalled scenes of the Red army on the Long March and hit upon an idea: Let's travel to Peking by foot." On Aug. 25, they set out, "holding high the Red-covered quotations of Chairman Mao, and with revolutionary vigor vowed: 'To make revolution, we must take the most arduous road!' " During...
...Shih Chuan-hsiang, "a famous model sanitation worker" who carries night soil (human excrement), in order "to put into practice the spirit expounded in Chairman Mao's writings." They helped him haul his wares and "did minor repairs in the public toilets." Old Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with filth, these sanitation workers had the loftiest and purest souls...
...Chinese song-and-dance team in Moscow was fine onstage, said Sovietskaya Kultura, but was positively offensive on a visit to the Lenin Museum: they giggled, yawned and spat. » Red Chinese crowds in the Manchurian port city of Dairen stoned and spat on Soviet sailors, Izvestia angrily reported. City officials even posted signs outside parks and nightspots: "Entrance forbidden to foreigners...