Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing: 100 to 250 yen...
...Peking, Yen gathered a large and loyal group of scholars, then traveled from village to village, setting up "people's schools." The people were eager to learn. "They appreciated tu-shu (reading)," says Yen, "but they never dreamed they could...
Cabinet ministers visiting Yen's headquarters in the dusty village of Tinghsien found that the people had learned not only to read, but to keep their village clean, grow bigger & better crops. Yen's rule: "While we aim to create a new society, we must not forget we are doing it with an old society...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that literacy was a military weapon for an army that needed leaders. In 1940, near bombed-out Chungking, the National College for Rural Reconstruction was founded, with Yen as president...
...Jimmy Yen's problem today is not only to teach new readers, but to find reading matter for those he has taught. With money from Publisher Marshall Field, he hopes to build up a people's press to provide his millions of "fellow scholars" (graduates of the people's schools) with cheap books in Basic Chinese. His goal: in ten years, only 10% illiteracy in China...