Word: zhao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preparing for this year's studies has not been easy. Removed from the mainstream of Western thought for most of the last ten years, Zhao was forced to start from ground zero. Working with Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, Zhao brought himself up to date by reading, among others, de Tocqueville's classic study, Democracy in America. His curriculum reads like a course of study in The Modern Western World: Bell's own Sociology 102, "Societal Analysis," Stanley Hoffmann's Government 185, "The United States in World Affairs," and Government 148, "American Political Development" with Samuel Huntington. A voracious reader...
...year-old Zhao, academic discussions about the interplay of politics and economics are a great leap from writing articles such as "China's Third Steel Base Starts Producing." Since his first visit to the United States--he arrived on a slow boat from China with $25 in his pocket--Zhao has written about everything from the "Three Anti's" Campaign to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's recent tour--in short, almost anything a Chinese journalist of the past 20 years could observe...
Despite his smile, there is some bitterness in Zhao's recollection. He still remembers the night in 1966 when youths from the ultra-leftist Red Guard--the tools of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution--came to his home and interrogated him until dawn. They destroyed everything of value his family owned, abused Zhao; later he was branded an "active counter-revolutionary," a label--the worst of many one could wear in China during those times--that stuck with him. From 1969 to 1971, Zhao lived at a reeducation farm in Honan province--eight hours train ride from Peking, with...
...seemingly endless number of technicians, scientists and intellectuals "sent down to the country" during the Cultural Revolution, Zhao raised hogs, pruned weeds, and built a lot of houses. He laughs as he stands over the gas stove in his Cambridge apartment, saying that he learned to cook on the farm, where he stoked the fire for 150 people. He talks wistfully about the "great deal of unnecessary cruelty," the "widespread violence," about people whose hands were tied behind their backs and, like dogs, were forced to eat steamed bread from the floor-or eat nothing at all. "The Red Guards...
...even in the midst of his suffering, Zhao was not vindictive. In the early morning following the Red Guard's visit, he discovered the youths--none over 17 years old--collapsed on the floor of his dwelling, trembling from exhaustion and the winter cold. Zhao gathered up spare coats and blankets and; as one admirer tells the story, "decided to protect the plunderers from the cold night...