Word: tsinan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belhomme says the average wage at the paper factory in Tsinan where he was employed was about $18 a month. Single workers lived in dormitories with four bunks to a room, families in one-room apartments in blocks of brick flats. During lunch breaks at the factory, Belhomme recalls, workers "talked mostly about food, how to get food, and prices." When an office worker referred to the Communist cadres as "golden boys," his reward was a trip to a "labor-education camp," and then to jail. On his return, he was reemployed, but as a common laborer...
...some areas, scarce in others. So it is with items such as cloth. Last year, when the cloth ration in Canton was only 1½ feet per person annually, it was 7 feet in Tsinan. To buy commodities, workers needed coupons as well as money: one coupon, plus the necessary cash price, got a small cooking pot. Each citizen also received a ticket for two bars of toilet soap a year, and one of laundry soap per month, and there were ration cards for cooking oil, flour, sugar and sweets. The meat ration in Tsinan is currently three ounces...