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...Fanshen. A dramatization of William Hinton's account of the land reform movement in a Chinese village. It's a great book, but I'm not quite sure how anyone could reenact the story. Still, if you're interested, it's at the People's Theater (you couldn't guess?) at 1253 Cambridge St. in Inman Square, Thurs-Sat at 8:05 p.m. Tickets...
Chiefly at the urging of Concerned Committee members and their allies, there is a vogue among politically hip college and high school students for books describing Mao's revolution in sympathetic terms; among them are Fanshen, Agricultural Expert William Hinton's narrative of how the revolution affected one village, and Journalist Edgar Snow's Red Star over China...
...Gough Aberle, an anthropologist at Simon Fraser University, urged scholars in the field to "choose between identification with our informants and our employers. If we don't do this," she said, "the counterrevolutionary side will choose us, whether we are aware of it or not." William Hinton, author of Fanshen, a book about agricultural reform in revolutionary China, told a receptive audience, "We will not survive unless we have a strong revolutionary movement." Orville Schell, a newly elected co-ordinator of CCAS from Berkeley, told the press that the group came together in an "attempt to wed scholarship with politics...