Word: luns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society of Chemistry, Tseng Chao-lun, confessed his organization's past errors in adopting "Anglo-American" laboratory methods, called for a "patriotic" reorientation...
Last fall Shanghai's Kun Lun studios put one of their top director-writers, Sun Yu, to work on a script about the persistent peasant. Early this year, The Life of Wu Hsun unfolded on movie screens across the land. The film was a smasheroo. Newspapers and magazines turned handsprings to praise it. Communist writers acclaimed Wu as a "great new revolutionary hero." Author-Director Sun was sitting pretty-or thought...
...American Fathers of the Divine Word have operated the Roman Catholic Fu Jen University (current enrollment: 1,100). Last week, Peiping radio announced that Fu Jen had become the first of China's 15 missionary-backed universities to be seized by the Communist government. Education Minister Ma Hsu-lun explained blandly: "The government decided to take over ... to protect the people's rights...