Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seek the truth from the facts," is a popular slogan in China now, explains Ching Chang Hsiao, a special reporter with the Wen Hui Daily in Shanghai and currently a Nieman fellow studying American history and foreign policy. "During the last ten to 20 years we emphasized the truth, but somehow the truth is not the facts, it's produced from people's minds," he says, referring to the Cultural Revolution. "Now we must pursue the truth; we must do everything according to the objective will...
Hsiao joined the Wen Hui Daily, the second largest newspaper in China, in 1957, covering arts and literature. His wife, Mei-Rong Yang, who is also a reporter in Shanghai, works for a competing newspaper called Liberation Daily Hsiao distinguishes the two papers by the fact that "my newspaper is unofficial and hers is official." Furthermore, Wen Hui Daily's readers are the intellectuals, while Liberation Daily attracts mainly workers and cadres...
...such similiarities to American newspapers as the Chinese equivalent to letters to the editor, a page entitled "the readers' letter box." She said that people--both readers and reporters--criticize the government in order to provide help and benefit the people. For example, during a serious vegetable shortage in Shanghai in 1982, reporters wrote articles questioning the government's competence and prompting officials to find out who was responsible for vegetable production...
Since the Henan arrests, similar accounts of persecution have begun to spill out from nearly half of China's provinces, as well as Shanghai, its largest city. The operator of a small retail business tells a foreigner on a train in central China that several dozen house-church leaders are under arrest in the city of Xian. Says the businessman: "All we can do is pray and weep for them." A Protestant writes a letter telling of public notices posted in Fuyang, west of Shanghai, ordering Christians not to share their faith beyond that city or to listen...
...Chinese thus hope to develop more badly needed consumer industries by encouraging enterprising managers who know how to use the new freedoms to create profits. The transformation at the Haiyan shirt factory is the work of one such man, Bu Xinsheng, 52, its manager. The son of a Shanghai tailor, Bu started sewing shirts at the factory in 1956, and moved up in the ranks by earning a reputation as a hard-driving worker. When industry officials decided in 1979 that the factory needed revitalizing, they tapped...