Word: zou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether her station participates in the new movement in media. Zou supports the new freedoms. "I think we should have more freedom to criticize the practice and the things [officials] do wrong," she says. But Zou draws the line at criticizing the policies of the state. When asked it the press should be critical of government policies, she dodges the question, always answering with what the press...
When pressed, Zou can think of one instance in which the media should have taken a critical view of the government and its policies the Cultural Revolution, which Mao launched in the sixties to purity the spirit of the Communist revolution. During the movement, many city-dwellers were relocated to the country side and hands of bands of vigilante. "Red Guards" interrogated suspected counter revolutionaries...
...Zou and her colleagues wrote stories supporting the Cultural Revolution throughout the period even though they disagreed with the government's policies. Zou, like the current Communist leadership, describes the whole period as "just awful...
...Zou feels it was very difficult for reporters to do their job during this period. "We were very depressed during the Cultural Revolution," she says. She adds. "We usually just made an excuse, not come into the office, say we were sick...We were absent a few days because we didn't [want] to propagate things [with] which we disagreed, but if you're going to work, you have...
...Today, Zou questions Chinese policies on women's rights, especially as they apply to her profession. Managers for Radio Peking, she says, generally give men jobs as correspondents even though more than half its writers are women. She notes that editors are reluctant to send mothers of young children away on assignment but do not follow the same policy with fathers. "We argue about this, but it's no use," she says...