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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief brain washer of Red China is Ai Szu-chi, director of the all-important Federation of Democratic Youth. More heard than seen, Ai gives long-winded, ponderous lectures over Radio Peking. A native of Yunnan and a comrade of long standing, he edits a turgidly written monthly called, appropriately, Hsueh Hsi, in which he answers tricky questions concerning correct Marxist conduct. Ai really shines, however, in the six so-called "revolutionary universities" where young Chinese twigs are first bent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Brain Washing | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Self-Examining. The highlight is the Tuesday lecture given by Ai Szu-chi. Sometimes he is there in person; at other times he is heard on records. These lectures, the only ones given at the university, last as a rule from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gist of Ai's "philosophy" is contained in a book of his called Historical Materialism, which has become the virtual Bible of hsueh hsi. (Sample excerpts: "Communism is the exquisite acme of man's social evolution . . . The capitalistic world is being pushed into the grave step by step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Brain Washing | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Professor Chi Szu-ho: "I, too, once asked for American aid to China. I now realize my mistake in taking our enemy to be our friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: My Soul to the Devil | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

China's scholarly Dr. Hu Shih, former president of Peking National University and Ambassador to Washington from 1938 to 1942, is now in the U.S., a refugee from his country's Red rulers. His son, Hu Szu-tu, 28, is still behind the Bamboo Curtain, has already undergone the so-called "new learning" in political science at the North China Revolutionary University in Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: No Freedom of Silence | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

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