Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixons, who will probably stay as do most Western VIPs at a government guest house overlooking West Lake, will find the ambience somewhat different. In 1921, a group of young intellectuals from Shanghai met secretly on a sampan on nearby South Lake to organize the Chinese Communist Party. Today, the only people in Hangchow visibly intent on bodily pleasure are the shadowboxers who materialize in the lakeside parks to exercise every morning...
Chekiang, a rural province south of Shanghai. As a teenager, young Chou organized a student society called Ching-yeh lo-chün (meaning "Respect Work and Enjoy Group Life"). He studied Marxism in Japan, founded Chinese Communist youth groups in France and Germany. By the time he was 30, Chou was a full-fledged member of the Politburo. During the harsh Long March, Chou established his lasting relationship with Mao. When Mao swept into Peking in 1949, Chou was ready with plans for China's new Communist government. On more than one occasion during the early struggles with...
...WORKER. To a factory worker in Detroit or even Moscow, the life of his counterpart in Shanghai or Peking would appear uncomfortably lackluster. But as the peasant in Honan sees it, his comrade assigned to an engine plant or machine shop is blessed with unimaginable luxury. Not only are wages higher than on the farms, but there are the attractions of city life -cinemas, stores, parks, athletic events -that provide some brightness to China's overall blue-gray drabness...
...half-caste child of East and West, Shanghai was built mainly by 19th century European merchants. It has become-in perhaps too many ways-China's New York. It is the nation's largest city (10 million people) and the busiest port in the Communist world, with China's most extensive industry and, consequently, its thickest smog. It also has one of China's largest slums. The hunger and diseases that used to snuff out the lives of thousands of infants annually during the 1930s have gone. But so have the sin and the aura...
...vitality persists. The crowds in Shanghai are noticeably better dressed than in any other Chinese city. The Nanking Road shops are far snappier than anything in Peking. The Communists have been diligently de-Westernizing the city (one street name that has unaccountably survived is Ko An, named for Morris ["Two Gun"] Cohen, a London-born freebooter who was one of Sun Yat-sen's bodyguards). But if Nixon tours the industrial fair during his one-day stay in the city, he might well have a sense of deja vn while inspecting the locally made automobiles. Those Shanghai sedans look...