Word: feng
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are stories by forgotten men. Some time in the 1620s there was published in the Chinese city of Soochow a book entitled Stories Old and New. They were collected by a literary vacuum cleaner named Feng Meng-lung, who dashed off dozens of books himself, but showed more talent in tidying up the writing of others. On one occasion, he read the play of a friend but refused to express an opinion. When the worried playwright returned later that night, Feng put him at ease: "Your play is excellent, but it is one act short. This act I have...
Humanity & Virtue. Six of the stories that Feng collected-and presumably edited-have been translated by English Scholar Cyril Birch. Today's readers will have to suspend all their literary leanings to appreciate the tales. They move with remarkable smoothness, but their authors cared not a kumquat about probability or credibility in the modern sense. The plots are supported by coincidence, and the passage of years is treated as offhandedly as a spilled cup of tea. What makes them interesting centuries later is a mixture of lusty humanity and shrewd weighing of human nature, an awareness that life...
From Taiwan came Feng-Jang Leu, managing director of the China Artificial Fiber Corp. in Tapei, which manufactures five tons of rayon filament a day, netted some 20% on its $2,000,000 gross last year. He wants a backer with $1,000,000 to build a mill that will 'produce 15 tons a day of fiber, his raw material, thus fill his own needs and those of other Taiwan firms...
...those who do not follow that teaching of Marx, I would address an old saying: he who does not allow himself to be criticized during his life will be criticized after death." And last week, as an encouragement to some understandably timid flowers, the Peking regime released Author Hu Feng, whose arrest in 1955 was the keystone of a campaign to silence China's intellectuals...
Correcting the Wind. Last week, in obedience to Mao's strictures, Red China's fourth cheng feng ("correct the wind") campaign was in full swing, and the flowers of criticism were springing up like dandelions. In Shanghai long-leashed newsmen publicly demanded that they be given "facilities" to report "actual situations" in the local bureaucracy, and in Peking emboldened students called for the withdrawal of the Communist control group in Peking University. (This development so unnerved the university's dean that he threatened to resign.) Meantime, all over China party dignitaries dutifully turned to toil...