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...terms of ideologies, Hsiao and Yang both prefer socialism since "It is more equal in China, there isn't a part so rich and a part so poor." The obvious disadvantage is the lack of work incentive--"whether you work hard or you work lazy, you get the same in the end," Hsiao says...
Neither Hsiao nor Yang think that the social system will of necessity also change. Only relations between government and factories will probably be changed, they believe...
Regardless of the momentous changes China is launching, both Hsiao and Yang are concentrating now on America. Yang is taking journalism courses at Boston University in preparation for launching a second career as a part-time lecturer on reporting. Hsiao is attending four courses including Government 1500, "Bureaucracy", as well as regular seminars for Nieman fellows. So far his favorite speakers have been authors David Halberstam '55, whose book The Best and The Brightest is very popular in China, and Bob Woodward...
...Yang was unable to do manual work because of poor health, so she remained in Shanghai and was "borrowed by the Chinese translation publishing house." In 1973, Ching-Chang Hsiao returned from the countryside and was borrowed by the People's Publishing House as a specialist in Chinese classical language and literature...
After the fall of the Gang of Four both Hsiao and Yang were despatched back to their former newspaper jobs--Yang writes special assignments, interviewing prominent people, and Hsiao travels throughout China as a special correspondent...