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When it comes to boasting of their "agrarian reforms," Chinese Communists like to point to Hupeh province in South China, and to the farmers of Hsi Shui county in particular...
...through Peking's Metropolitan Library. He managed to find one of the three existing complete sets (5,020 volumes) of the 1728 Chinese Encyclopedia. He also sent home a priceless rubbing from the stone text of a Confucian doctrine dated 745 A.D., with a commentary by the Emperor Hsiüan-Tsung; a Tibetan book written in pure gold; a 600 A.D. scroll found in the caves of northwest China with the original hemp wrapper signed by the woman who wove it. Gest impoverished himself supplying funds for Gillis, who had resigned his commission to devote full time...
...washer of Red China is Ai Szu-chi, director of the all-important Federation of Democratic Youth. More heard than seen, Ai gives long-winded, ponderous lectures over Radio Peking. A native of Yunnan and a comrade of long standing, he edits a turgidly written monthly called, appropriately, Hsueh Hsi, in which he answers tricky questions concerning correct Marxist conduct. Ai really shines, however, in the six so-called "revolutionary universities" where young Chinese twigs are first bent...
...heard on records. These lectures, the only ones given at the university, last as a rule from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gist of Ai's "philosophy" is contained in a book of his called Historical Materialism, which has become the virtual Bible of hsueh hsi. (Sample excerpts: "Communism is the exquisite acme of man's social evolution . . . The capitalistic world is being pushed into the grave step by step...
After about five months of hsueh hsi, a group is called to a "thought mobilization" meeting at which all are urged, one after another, to get up and "cast aside, once & for all, their burdensome thoughts." There are warnings that those who still hold reactionary thoughts or have not yet confessed reactionary deeds will sooner or later regret it. What follows is a kind of political revivalist meeting, or a Buchmanite confessional, at which students cry their ideological sins and profess to see the light of reform...