Word: hensman
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That university has been of great interest to Hensman, because, he said, along with Peking University, it has played a major role in the cultural revolution. In July 1968, Mao sent a large band of workers into Ching Hua to carry out the proletarianization of education, and bring the intellectuals in closer contact with the problems they consider...
...Hensman said the results were astonishing. The old president of the university has been thrown out of office, and the university is now run by a revolutionary committee, many of whose members are workers Courses are constantly criticized and revised to "match them more to the needs of the people of China," Hensman said...
...said the courses frequently involve working in as well as studying a particular field. Architecture students work with construction crews, trucks are produced at Ching Hua University, and agriculture is practiced as well as studied. Hensman described parts of the university as looking "more like a farm or a factory site, than a university...
...Hensman disclaimed reports of an air of repression in China, and the universities in particular. "There is a great spirit to carry though the revolution, which encompasses a true humanity towards people. If anything, the leaders of the revolution want to win people over, not oppress them," he said
...Hensman discussed the feelings of the people he spoke with regarding American student protest. "They certainly do not write it off as frivolous," he said. He described the feeling he encountered as "an overreaction, if anything. They tend to give too much weight to the protests...