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...main consideration for a Chinese journalist is whether an article is profitable for the government and for the people. "If it's good, then we can write it," Yang says. Moreover, the primary duty of the press is to explain Chinese policy and to convince the people that the policy is right, she continues. "Of course, we only say the truth, not the false," Hsiao adds...
According to Yang, the Chinese papers cover the same sorts of political, international and social news as in America, but with one major difference in their purpose. When writing about crime, the paper will not include all the minute details, but rather will focus on "educating people not to do such evil things," she says...
...Yang points out such similiarities to American newspapers as the Chinese equivalent to letters to the editor, a page entitled "the readers' letter box." She said that people--both readers and reporters--criticize the government in order to provide help and benefit the people. For example, during a serious vegetable shortage in Shanghai in 1982, reporters wrote articles questioning the government's competence and prompting officials to find out who was responsible for vegetable production...
...behind the differences in newspapers exists a difference in attitiude between the two nations. One characteristic that both Hsiao and Yang find lacking in the Chinese is the American aggressive spirit. Hsiao says, "How can we modernize such a huge country with one billion people? If we want to go forward we must have that kind of spirit." Traditionally, the Chinese wait. He explains that especially in the 1940s aggression was not a very good word in China because the Japanese were aggressive, and that meant...
However, Americans can also learn from the patterns of Chinese relationships between people, Yang says, "In China, we're not so selfish as in America, we can take care of our neighbors, do housework for them..." Although Chinese are not as open as the Americans, "we Chinese are shy," Yang chuckles, but "our heart is very sincere...