Word: hsiao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Precisely because of this issue the Chinese have embarked on very recent economic reforms involving the expansion of a free market. "In the past all the benefits you must give to the government, the rest you keep," Hsiao says...
...Neither Hsiao nor Yang think that the social system will of necessity also change. Only relations between government and factories will probably be changed, they believe...
Regardless of the momentous changes China is launching, both Hsiao and Yang are concentrating now on America. Yang is taking journalism courses at Boston University in preparation for launching a second career as a part-time lecturer on reporting. Hsiao is attending four courses including Government 1500, "Bureaucracy", as well as regular seminars for Nieman fellows. So far his favorite speakers have been authors David Halberstam '55, whose book The Best and The Brightest is very popular in China, and Bob Woodward...
Ching-Chang Hsiao says that he wanted to be a Nieman fellow because "we must get more knowledge about America and about the world. We can't confine ourselves to China or to Shanghai." Certainly, in his own life Hsiao has not confined himself much. After graduating from Nanking University in 1951, he taught Chinese literature in middle school in Shanghai. After joining the Wen Hui Daily on 1957 he covered the arts--especially music and foreign artists--for about ten years...
...during the Cultural Revolution, "I was kicked out," he says, and sent to the countryside for physical labor. Hsiao was cultivating grain and rice with other intellectuals from about 5:30 a.m. till 6 or 8 p.m. for almost seven years. Since there was no reading or writing allowed, manual labor was his only activity...