Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soon Western tourists will be swarming into China, occupying the six or seven Inter-Continental Hotels that are to be designed, constructed and operated by Americans. In Peking, officials are planning to revive an institution that once stood as a symbol of Western cultural imperialism: a foreign-run university with a foreign faculty teaching technical subjects to 10,000 Chinese students-in English...
...pursuit of modernization, China is now willing to accept the aid of the capitalist West. Last week alone, the Chinese negotiated a series of deals with the Western world that would have been inconceivable under Mao. At the Canton Trade Fair, Peking's main foreign trade showcase, the Chinese sold approximately $1 billion in goods to foreign countries, while their purchases amounted to about $600 million. According to the National Council for U.S.-China Trade, American businessmen sold the Chinese some $83 million in commodities, mostly industrial chemicals, and bought $62 million worth of textiles and arts and crafts...
...since the Western enclaves of Shanghai and other major cities emptied overnight after the 1949 Communist victory have the Chinese people been exposed to as many foreigners and foreign ideas. Chinese scientists, economic planners, bureaucrats and army officers are being dispatched abroad in ever greater numbers; if Peking has its way, tens of thousands of Chinese students will be roaming university campuses throughout the non-Communist world within a decade. The country's leaders themselves are being seen more and more abroad. In Rumania, Hua even took part in a peasant dance with Rumanian youths, which produced predictable sniffs...
...angered others whose families were touched by the purge of radicals (experts believe 25% of all Communist Party officials were affected). If the modernization drive should falter in the 1980s because of a huge crop failure, an unexpected drop in oil production or an inability to pay for Western technology, a radical counterforce might re-emerge in China. In that case, the dissidents would only have to look back to Mao's writings for an extensive critique of Teng's policies. Mao would also remind them: "To rebel is justified...
Even the most knowledgeable American pop-music fan would be hard pressed to identify Dean Reed. But in the Soviet Union, the Denver-born country-and-western singer is more popular than Frank Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back...