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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...
...brain 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...
...when the Communist power in China was at the lowest ebb, Chou's smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their...