Word: wu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China, taxes are levied and collected equitably. The native Formosans, once resenting the intrusion of the Nationalists, have become loyal to Chiang. Last winter, 12,000 young islanders were drafted into the Nationalist army without complaints or repercussions. Formosa's local government, under able Nationalist Administrator K. C. Wu, has become, in the opinion of Americans in Taipei, the soul of rectitude...
...Communists are striving to subject to their will all other Chinese institutions, the school, the temple, the farm. Peking maintains a steady war against Christian missionaries, who are being harassed and slowly driven out of the country. Wu Yao-tsung, former Shanghai Y.M.C.A. official, expressed Peking's attitude on religion: "God is truth, truth is found in Communism; therefore in joining Communism, a man is worshiping...
Last fall Shanghai's Kun Lun studios put one of their top director-writers, Sun Yu, to work on a script about the persistent peasant. Early this year, The Life of Wu Hsun unfolded on movie screens across the land. The film was a smasheroo. Newspapers and magazines turned handsprings to praise it. Communist writers acclaimed Wu as a "great new revolutionary hero." Author-Director Sun was sitting pretty-or thought...
...trouble by making Czar Ivan the Terrible look too terrible-could have told Sun that the party line is not easily threaded through a movie projector. Just as Sun's acclaim was reaching its peak, Peking's People's Daily thundered that "his Life of Wu Hsun . . . showed that reactionary thoughts of the capitalistic class had seeped into the Communist Party." Far from being a hero of the people, Wu was a dangerous fool "who did not realize that his suffering was due to class oppression," and who committed the grave error of turning for help...
...matter what were my subjective hopes," groveled Writer Sun in a penitent doubletalk that sounded like a direct translation from the Russian, "the objective realization has proved to me that The Life of Wu Hsun ... is a movie harmful to the people. I can only hope to learn a lesson from my mistake and my failure...