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Ya Say Ya Want a Revolution? – China ’76
by Ernie Diaz
Ah, 1976, a simpler time. Who amongst you has the fullness of years to remember it? Hair was feathered and bottoms were belled. Barry Manilow was singing about writing the songs that made the world sing. Rocky was inspiring the autistic underdog in all of us, while Mother, Juggs & and Speed gave us race-related fodder for thought.
Everything in China was hunky-dory, too. I know. I picked up a copy of “China Pictorial 1976” that says so. Here ya go. You’re welcome.
A New Generation In China’s Countryside
 Former regimental commander of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Fang Ho-ming returned to his home village and has been doing farm work for the past 27 years. He tells educated young people the revolutionary traditions. |
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| “And that’s the story of why only plaid frock coats and pig tails look good on girls.” | |
| Chairman Mao has pointed out: “All intellectuals who can work in the countryside should be happy to go there. Our countryside is vast and has plenty of room for them to develop their talents to the full.” He also said: “It is highly necessary for young people with education to go to the countryside to be re-educated by the poor and lower-middle peasants.”
Greatly encouraged, the broad masses of educated young people have boldly gone to rural areas. This is a new socialist development. It has far-reaching significance in the training and bringing up of millions of successors to the proletarian revolutionary cause, combating and preventing revisionism, consolidating the dictatorship of the proletariat, restricting bourgeois right, speeding the construction of socialist new countryside, and in narrowing the differences between town and country, worker and peasant, and mental and manual labor. (Cont. Below) |
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 Educated youth Ho Hsiao-fang is deputy secretary of the Party committee of Yuntien commune, Huili County, Szechuan Province. Her younger sister Ho Li-fang has also settled in the countryside. |
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| “Oh my god it’s Wang Wei!”
“Who’s that?” “Only like, the cutest revolutionary in the commune.” |
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| Under the guidance of Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line, from the start of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to 1975, 12 million educated young people have settled in the countryside. Participating in class struggle and the struggle between the proletarian and bourgeois lines, they have continued making revolution in the countryside and have matured steadily. | |
 After a day’s work in a stand of rubber trees on Nanping Farm, Hainan Island. “You sure these little white balloons we found on the riverbank will count towards our quota?” “Just keep rinsing.” |
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 Lu Chung-yang (2nd right). Was among the first of China’s educated youngsters to return to their homes to do farm work after graduation. |
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| “No way! They’re gonna do ‘Country Roads’!” | |
 Tsai Chun-tse (2nd left, front) settled in Yutienkao brigade, Ongniud Banner, Chao Uda League, Liaoning Province. Breaking with old conventions and habits, he continues to make revolution in the countryside. |
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| “Gobi Desert? Not when we’re done shoveling!” | |
 In 1970, Liu Hsiang-o settled in Jenyi commune, Kueiyang County, Hunan Province. Educated by the former poor and lower-middle peasants, she is resolved to make revolution in the countryside all her life and has been elected as brigade Party branch secretary. |
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| “Geep zmiling undil ze gamraman goze away.” | |
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i like this posting.. i like all China photos too.. Culture China never gone..
Luca from Italy
That was a great time for all Chinese farmer,and verything in China was hunky-dory
i like this posting.. i like all China photos too.. Culture China never gone..
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