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...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...
After the Cultural Revolution and the many shocks of that period. Zou has become suspicious of such movements and hopes for stability in China. She says the current regime is trying to reform the nation in an orderly fashion...
...Zou is critical of some young people who she thinks are undermining this stability. "We don't want young people shouting all the time, making trouble....We are tired of all those movements," she says...