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China's Red masters have a special word for thought control: hsueh hsi, or "the practice of learning." China's plain people use a more telling expression: Communist indoctrination, which presses on them without pause or pity, is simply hsi nao, or "washing the brain." From Hong Kong last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Neville cabled a survey of brain washing in Red China...
Correct Thinking. "Incorrect" thoughts in Red China may be punished by anything up to death. "Correct" thoughts can often be the sure path to success. This probably explains why millions of mainland Chinese are engaged in hsueh hsi and why Red China has a dedicated army which rarely breaks, an efficient and incorruptible corps of administrators, and a zealous youth ready to believe that black is white and to die for that warped belief...
...important is hsueh hsi that it takes precedence over almost every other activity in Red China. Writers, actors, entertainers, journalists are not allowed to work without having passed their hsueh hsi. All army personnel, government employees and trade unionists, as well as Communist party workers, must attend indoctrination lectures. To conduct hsueh hsi courses on a national scale requires thousands of lecturers, teachers, observers, spotters and heretic hunters...
...gaudy melodrama, written by six anonymous authors, of whom Mao may be one. It portrays the suffering of Heroine Hsi-erh, a landless farmer's daughter, who is tortured by the landlord's mother, raped by the landlord's son, etc., etc. Her ordeal turns her hair prematurely white. The Red army finally rescues her and punishes the wicked landlord family...
...Measure of Maturity. Wu Kuo-cheng was born in 1903 in the mountains of Central China, grew up in Peking, where his peasant-born father was director of military training for the Imperial Chinese army. In Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...