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The Tungching People's Commune near Nanking has a farm implements workshop where homemade steel is produced for tractor harrow blades. Even though the Nanking Iron and Steel Works plant is less than five miles away, the commune insisted on making its own steel as part of the drive...
The Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 was a form of shock therapy prescribed by Mao to maintain revolutionary momentum. This traumatic exercise in self-criticism had its most pronounced effect on China's intellectual life. In Nanking, I talked with three writers-two novelists and a poet. In the...
China has a sense of vitality that is not found in the Soviet Union. Russia, which I toured extensively as TIME'S Moscow correspondent from 1968 to 1970, is a classless society with a privileged elite. In China, by contrast, everyone is poor together. There are no private cars...
As my guide emphasized, the bridge is also a symbol of triumph over the "revisionists." At the height of the Cultural Revolution, work stopped for two months while rival factions in Nanking argued bitterly over design details. Among other things, the revisionists -they turned out to be the Minister of...
Mao's line runs all through Nanking. At one school I was treated to a recital of songs by the Little Red Soldiers Mao Tse-tung Thought Team. Then there was the demonstration by the People's Militia, which practices twice a week. The marksmen-some were eight...