For twenty-two years China lay forgotten and was even confused with a small island, one of its provinces and the flexible chines bamboo curtain was countered by a Western curtain of rigid disregard. Then suddenly that one-fourth of mankind enclosed in the world’s third largest country was brought out of the memory attic with a loud bang.The Chinese may have introduced the smile policy but the occidentals certainly launched the warm hug. The crowed of official visitors to peeking, performing a devoted quasi-pilgrimaging is now more numerous than the battalions of traders who go twice yearly to traditional canton fair. Seventy three year old Chou En-Lai will end up.Dislocating his right hand if he goes on shaking it at the present rate with delegation running into hundreds of people at a time his eyes blinded by the constant flashing of the official souvenir photographer. The queue of the country are waiting list to recognize the Peoples Republic of China is growing longer with mounting awareness of the absurdity of the past oblivion or a political guilt complex for having kept china out of the U.N for a long time.
China is now the fashion around the world, and in no uncertain terms. Everywhere politician of the most conservation and bourgeois kind are attempting to rebuild for themselves a compromised career by singing the praises of Mao Tse- Tung.
An Exemplary Social Experiment:
When confronting the enigma of the Chinese planet too many Westerners have forgotten the Asiatic background and painful colonial history. But when the Communities came to power in 1949 the vast majority of the country carried on as it had been doing for the past 2000 years, in an early Iron Age economy. And on countless occasion during our visits to the agricultural communes we were proudly told “Here we didn’t even have the life of the oxen and horses”.
Compared to china in 1949 Russia in 1917 did not have the grim inheritance of a country of a shattering multi-colonial experience. Russia never suffered, China fate of such a sharp and pervasive western impact that it was forced together with many other Asiatic civilization into a kind of a split economy but above all in terms of a split culture and a split personality.
In china the individual has been rescued from the aftermath of this unfortunate heritage by the new found companionship common purpose and discipline of mass-organization. Just as the Vietnamese have withstood American technology so the ascetic militant Chinese have gone straight to the roots of the problems that have plagued Asian countries for thousands of year – the lack of food and low levels of nutrition gross inequalities of income and consumption unemployment and a sense of social uselessness and the blind expansion of the cities.
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