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...least a few Chinese dissenters have gone much further in rejecting Mao's posthumous influence. One sign: novels and short stories dealing with forbidden themes are now being clandestinely circulated among friends in manuscript form. One such novel is entitled Ah Hsia, the name of its heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang...
Aside from the recession, though, the U.S. faith in college may be undergoing a subtle change-a creeping disenchantment with going to college at all. Many high school students seem to agree with seniors like Judy Hsia, 17, who attends Evanston (Ill.) High School. She is deliberately running the risk of not applying to any "safety" colleges. "If I don't make my first choices," she says, "I can always do something else for a year. There's no point in going to any college just for the sake of going. One of my brother's friends...
Rollcall of Revolt. Last week, at 50, Stalin Prizewinner Ting Ling and Chen Chi-hsia, another eminent Chinese writer, found themselves under savage attack by the Union of Chinese Writers on charges of "rightist conspiracy" to establish a Western-style democratic system in China...
...Chinese, and-like its modern water tower disguised as a pagoda-to blend much of the best of two civilizations. With a faculty that was two-thirds Chinese and one-third American and European, students studied the Bible and Shakespeare, learned the history of their ancient dynasties from Hsia to Ching. They learned basketball and Chinese boxing, studied ancient dances and whistled the latest U.S. tunes, wore Chinese gowns and rode bicycles. On their own campus, students and scholars lived in easy harmony, with the Yenching motto-"Freedom through Truth for Service" -as their common guide...