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...group of orientalists headed by Vadime Elisseeff, chief curator of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris. Encyclopedic in scope-the objects on display range from rudimentary quartz and flint scrapers used by Peking Man in 500,000 B.C. to the exquisite porcelains and silver toilet articles of the Yuan dynasty, which ended in A.D. 1368-it is intelligently mounted, with unobtrusive panels of photos, documents and information: an ideal teaching show, in fact. But unlike most didactic exhibitions, it is crammed with masterpieces of breathtaking authority...
PAINE HALL. Robin Yuan, violin, and Myron Press, piano. Sonatas by Mozart, Brahms, and Franck. Tickets: $2.50 (students: $1.00). April...
...guided tour of one such apartment complex, the Feng Cheng workers' residential area, I was introduced to Cheng Wei-ping, a bus dispatcher. Cheng earns 79 yuan a month ($39.50), and his wife earns an identical amount in a nearby cotton mill. Their rent, however, is under 10 yuan per month for bedroom, living room, kitchen alcove and toilet-all unheated. Twenty-five years ago, such accommodations were beyond the reach of anyone but white-collar or professional workers...
...most of the factories I visited, the workers-whose average pay was 60 yuan ($27.27) a month-had not received raises in at least seven years. "Workers are not concerned about their salaries," Liang told me. "They want to reduce the wage differential between the city and the countryside. If people in one factory make more money than others, then they are not really serving the people." Despite the lack of financial incentive, the workers appeared content. The plants are generally clean and the pace of work intense but measured. There are periodic breaks for tea, food and exercise during...
Even though he has not published anything since 1967, Teng continues to draw his monthly pay of 110 yuan ($55) as a writer. He is currently study ing revolutionary operas in hopes of writing one himself. He is also rewriting some of his earlier works, which in clude a collection of tales for children that sold 210,000 copies, to portray his heroes and heroines in the proper proletarian manner. "Some of our work needs to he rewritten and repolished," he said. "The times keep progressing, and our thinking must keep progressing." Teng is familiar with the major Russian works...