Word: hua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN the Great Proletarian Revolution burst over Communist China, Peking recalled all but one of its 42 ambassadors. The lone exception was Huang Hua, then Peking's man in Cairo. His dedication to Communism and his diplomatic acumen in directing China's relations with all of Africa and the Middle East had obviously earned the confidence and respect of China's leaders, even in a period when they were not inclined to trust many people...
...Many Tears? Each boy's life story is a vignette of the war. Hua Ket, 12, survived an attack on his village by U.S. planes because he was playing in a distant field; an old woman sent him to Saigon, and for three years he shined shoes and slept on the streets until he moved to Hughes' "Hope 5" hostel. After his father was killed by the Viet Cong, Nguyen Van Thanh. 12, ran away from his village and met a bar girl who brought him to Saigon; there he ran away again and moved to the streets...
Hensman visited factories, communes, the docks at Shanghai, where he found women working. He said he found women active in all walks of Chinese life. He also visited Ching Hua University, the leading technical university of China...
That university has been of great interest to Hensman, because, he said, along with Peking University, it has played a major role in the cultural revolution. In July 1968, Mao sent a large band of workers into Ching Hua to carry out the proletarianization of education, and bring the intellectuals in closer contact with the problems they consider...
...said the courses frequently involve working in as well as studying a particular field. Architecture students work with construction crews, trucks are produced at Ching Hua University, and agriculture is practiced as well as studied. Hensman described parts of the university as looking "more like a farm or a factory site, than a university...