Word: hopei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retreat from its propaganda claims when providentially the government found a way to shift much of the blame: nature this spring took a cruel hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately to keep a wheat crop, badly weakened by unseasonably warm weather in the spring, from toppling over. In Honan, 5,000,000 farmers were battling swarms of insects, and six other provinces were plagued by plant...
...slogan ("Make manure by soaking and smoking") to accumulate 10 billion tons of fertilizer. But so many Chinese are tied up on other "shock programs" that despite China's 600 million-man labor force there is a shortage of manure collectors; to find hands for the task, Hopei province has been obliged to abandon eight out of twelve high-priority irrigation projects planned for this year...
...longer-needed kitchenware-"took away steel rods on public buildings, underground drainpipes and iron railings, and handed them over to the authorities as scrap iron." In Honan, it added, peasants complain bitterly about the common messhalls, which prevent them from having friends at home for dinner. In Hopei they worry about having no kitchens of their own or a brick oven to sleep on during the winter...
...heart." At 18, armed with a party recommendation, Liu left off writing about the heady world of production quotas, collective labor and agricultural cooperatives, entrained for Peking University to "study life more penetratingly, and undergo self-transformation." After one year Liu gave up the university to return to Hopei and "throw himself into the perpetual fires of struggling life...
...party members in Hopei he was not the same old Liu. The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary." Instead of seeking out stories of "socialist realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into...