Word: suichuan
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Relax & Enjoy It. Hankow's Chang-chiang jih-pao reported on the gay life of the Suichuan District Party Committee in southwest Kiangsi province. By adopting the attitude, "Now that victory has been achieved, why shouldn't we enjoy ourselves a bit?" Party Secretary Chiao Erh-kung had "led a depraved personal life." Police Chief Lu Pin had "specialized in dinner parties for women guests," each time "spending the equivalent of the vegetable allowance of 70 members of his bureau." After squandering the bureau's entire budget (7,000 Ibs. of rice), Lu had embezzled party cash...
...lower ranks there was "extravagance, waste and much feasting." Instead of wearing their uniforms, party members "strutted about in their own suits styled as capitalistically as they could make them." But the worst offender in Suichuan was probably Subcommittee Secretary Wang Ching-jung, who "took to opium smoking and morphine injections," and what's more, cynically boasted that the worst thing that could happen to a Communist party secretary was to be subjected to criticism...
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