Let Rs Hy Susan Warren 25C CHINA FAC'is FOIT A}TERICAN READERS Correcting Popular Ttles
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Box 1536, New York 17, N.Y. 30e . alt LETTERS From Friends in China Introduction Letters from friends in China come in often. The usual time from Peking or Shanghai is eight or nine days and occasionally only ffve days. This issue of FAR EAST REPORTER consists of excerpts from some of these letters. David Crooks is a Britisher who has lived in China for over two decades and teaches in the Peking Foreign Language Institute. Mrs. Crooks is the daughter of former Canadian missionaries in China. Elsie Fairfax Cholmeley (Mrs. Israel Epstein) has also lived in China for over two decades; she and Mr. Epstein do editorial work; they have two adopted Chinese children, a son and a daughter. Doris Dawson was a naturalized American citizen now making her home in China with her daugh- ter, son-in-law and Chinese grandchildren, and teaches in Kaifeng Nornral School. The American living in Shanghai has also been a resident of China for more than two decades and does educational research work and teaching. From David Crooks - Peking Peking August 1th, 7964 I out today is not merelY connected, with production in the surroulding communes, where ed in thoie countries but the Institute has experimental plots, information centers, research stations, etc. When we asked about the InsUtute's reaction to the r,"::,sf$s.,"'rlT"T'i",['J# Lysenko controversy we were told that all students study both Morgan-Weissman and Michurin and are urged to "use their own brains and form their own conclusions." The Dean ofiered his of some complicated Parabola during the First Great LeaP turned out a machine that e-made job" evolved into a most Nlao Tse-Tung's "On of Chin-ese industrY todaY. The principles in Contradiction." Michurin stressed reasons: to two Powerful-draws " which to the full we went around the big, light member of the management, an whenever there is some knotty problem to solve. Old workers team ;;;tth the new, colleqe gridirates team up with regular Iactory n^anas to "combine thedry with practice." The managers ( five out of six of them were formerly riorkers i" th9 same plant) spoke exPerts who had been there, said the reaction to the with- s a spur to their efforts, just as monopoly of science. A glance at tlre with white towels on their heads, go- We saw evidence of the Gre ould indicate how science permeates Mt. Taishan. From the toP, look various valleys, we asked when tl invariably the answer was 1958 and reseirch institute in Taian (the town at the foot of the moun- apple ProducUon in 1962 was , dfiun th" tr"", planted during bear fruit, it was 75 rnillion jin' and read wish-ful references to eat leap backward, but in all otu 8 tiII now we have never seen any evidence for an iota of truth in this statement. Of course in the -buty there have been some exPeri- to maintain that this makes han a leap forward is lunatic logic. big Agricultural Institute which incorporated those that used to 6e at Chingt^a_o and. Nanking. Theri were over 1700 students, more than 8A% of them from farmers' families. The teaching and scientific research are closely 6 2 J the soviet Union this year. we were told that in 1962 production was g8% higher than iir 1961, and in 1963 it was 65% higher than i" fgOZ. ThEse ffgures included frozen eggs and tinned fruit as well Herod on their quest for Christ, for as the head of the established ruling class he sought to stangle the new-born infant as a threat to his rule. So he told the Three Wise Men to report back their findings. But they didn't. labouring poople, saw th went on to apply these le the massacre of the innoc quoting from the Second Declaration of Havana: that imperialism extracts $4,000 a minute from Latin America, and leaves instead deaths from reappraisals pliilosophy, i in two and a half to three hours; it took us about four, not counting class-rooms. in sPoke last few years) contained a piece by Charles Curwen on how he to other tracked dor,vn the sword of the Taiping Uprising leader, Li Xu- pl Taian cheng. But historical research this year revealed that when Li to 5 feet vras captured by the imperial forces he helped them against his former followers, in an unsuccessful attempt to save his own life. Would it be a good idea to go on teaching this piece about a man now proved to be a traitor? As it happened this produced a most lively discussion, for such questions are not regarded as merely academic matters here. Lighter subjects, such as tight trousers have also come up for and thick clouds which made the rocks and twisted pines and debate. In one current-affairs discussion it came out that a girl emerge from the mist as they do in quite ordered a pair in Shanghai. The tailor tried to convince her that rushing waterfalls -those incredlble Chinese landicape paintings which are in fact utterly they would be ugly and uncomfortable; he proposed another type, realistic. snappy but not skin-tight. The girl stuck to her tights - and the There are still half a dozen monks in the temples and a like tailor refused to make them. When the customer left in a huff, the staff called a meeting - to discuss whether the tailor had been right or wrong. They reached no agreement, so wrote to the newspaper. The letter was published, and brought hundreds of replies. Con- clusion: what you wear is in a sense your own business, but still, historical relics. August 6th,1964 Chinese Cl.rristians, Iike other people here, are going back to the b increase in teaching personnel from abroad. Our own English De- partment, which for fourteen years or so jogged along rvith four of us foreign teachers (among dozens of Chinese ones) now suddenly has eleven - which is still not even half as many as we r.vanted. There has been a similar increase in the field of translation. The explanation for the increase in foreign language teaching and interpretation is that China has 48,@0 specialists and tech- nicians in foreign countries and that in 1965 the number will rise to between 50 and 60,000. It also shows how high China's prestige stands abroad, especially in Asia and Africa, which makes nonsense of talk about her being "isolated." From Elsie Fairfax-Cholmeley - Peking August 7st, 7964 Yesterday we rvent to Shanhaikwan and Chingwandao; we were amazed bv the grcenness of the country and the general look of rvell-being.