Word: changing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Huang, now 59, got part of his early training from his family's picture-mounter, Su Chang, whose "Studio of Pines and Snow" was a collector's hangout famous throughout China. A recognized painter by the time he was 20, Huang spent the Nationalist government's long wartime exile in Chungking teaching and making sketching trips along the wild and misty mountain gorges of the Kialing River. He went to Formosa in 1948 as a member of a good-will mission just before Communists seized control of Nanking's National Central University, where...
...government-sponsored Foreign Investment Act, which is expected to be passed early next year, will open up the country's nationalized lead, coal, zinc, tungsten and tin mines to private operation on a lease from the government. U Tin U himself has applied for the Lone Chang zinc mine, announced that he was willing and able to put 200,000 Burmese kyats ($16,000) into its development, wants a foreign partner...
...materialist bosses of Hunan's "people's government" are afraid of ghosts-or of a restless undercurrent of anti-Communism that has resulted in a China-wide crackdown against dissenters of all kinds. At first, ran the Peking account, Taoists Li Kwei-ying (a woman) and Chiang Chang-en were given eight-year sentences. They received death sentences only after Hunan's "masses protested against too light punishment...
Communist China seems to be producing a class of discontented, semieducated intellectuals for whom there are no suitable jobs-a category in which Communism had made its strongest inroads in other parts of Asia and the Middle East. What to do with the idle educated? Said Education Minister Chang Hsi-jo: "Let them work in the fields and factories as in the Soviet Union. We must have the younger generation educated so they may know that revolution is painful...
...support Minister Chang's ruling, propaganda mills began grinding out touching stones of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's own hard and difficult struggle as a young revolutionary, much as a capitalist uncle might rebuke a wastrel nephew with stories of his own five-mile hikes through the snow to the little red schoolhouse. Samples: "Chairman Mao's socks were full of holes, his clothes made of rough texture. He ate only two meals of rice and cabbage daily. His comrades urged him to eat more. Chairman Mao would not allow...