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TITLE: THE STORY OF QIU...
...Chinese version of the affluent society. At the Xiang Jiang state farm near Mao's birthplace in Hunan province, which was renowned a dozen years ago for its spartan housing and inadequate sanitation, TV antennas now protrude from rooftops and pop music blares from tape recorders. Local Party Secretary Qiu Huaisheng proudly points out that "of the 200 households, 126 have bought TV sets and 112 own cassette recorders." Sometimes, however, the peasants' purchases, as well as their entrepreneurial skills, are both illicit and posilively profligate. A group of peasants in Fujian province pooled its resources to buy a dozen...
...near riot to demand the expulsion of Chinese troops who have been bivouacked in the school's dormitories since 1968. Last week peasants complaining that they had been maltreated during the Cultural Revolution took part in sit-ins outside government offices in the capital. A poster signed by Qiu Shui, a writer for the radical underground journal Tansuo (Exploration), appeared on Peking's "Democracy Wall," denouncing Hua for "interference" with China's judicial procedures. The poster attacked Hua's statement that Mao Tse-tung's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) and the other...