Here are two snippets from a Chinese Communist journal called People’s China, published in August 1956:In 1956, despite the worst natural calamities in scores of years, China’s peasants, newly organized in co-operatives on a nation-wide scale, produced 2,740 million Yuan’s worth more farm products than in 1955, an increase greater than the average annual increase in the
For decades now, I have used the power of the press to try to get improvements for certain things in Logan County, and as frustrating as it has been, when
Since the Tiananmen Square killings it has become fashionable within the Chinese leadership to refer to dissident intellectuals as “scum.” That was Mao’s view, too. In 1942, the chairman, his armies besieged by both Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese army, took time off for zheng-feng, or rectification movement, in which he laid down rules for “unclean” Chinese authors.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong's talk at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art in May 1942, the National Theatre of China promoted its new documentary drama, Literature and Art in the War of Resistance, during a news conference held in Beijing recently.