Word: proletarianized
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Clothes counted, but not much. Folk over 35 preferred the "expensive square" look: Italian tailoring for the men, boots and casual furs for the wives. The younger element went in for "proletarian mod"-long hair, long coats and long pants on the girls, 19th century haircuts, leather jackets and blue jeans...
...signals that emanate from Peking are erratic, vague and contradictory. But they hint that after the long isolation and xenophobia of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China is beginning to take notice of the outside world again. For two years, shrill Maoist Red Guardism ruled, and China seemed almost without a foreign policy. Now, the more moderate professionals appear to be moving back in charge at the Foreign Office in Peking. With their return, China's relations with the world can be expected to become more rational and more flexible. There will likely be no major policy changes...
...revolution in the country's educational policies; he is said to believe that the present setup tends to perpetuate urban, bourgeois values. It is also something of a "rectification" campaign, however, designed to punish the young Red Guards who ran wild after Mao proclaimed his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution...
Only rarely does the world have an opportunity to catch glimpses of the confused reality behind Communist China's facade, and last week China-watchers were poring over the transcript of a summer meeting in Peking that offered choice insight into the passions aroused by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The document, a Red Guard pamphlet obtained in Hong Kong, purports to be the minutes of a meeting of the Peking leadership with rival Red Guard factions from the still troubled Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region that borders on North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment...
Kang Sheng: I have to tell you that you are not here to argue a case. You cannot insist on conditions, and what is more, you cannot insist on bargaining with the proletarian headquarters. The problem of Kwangsi, particularly that of suspension of railway traffic, has been dragging on for two months. I now want to ask you: are you opposed...