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WELL, IT’S nice to get back to China, from which !
emerged, all unsuspecting, to find that some people wished
I'd stayed there. Oh well, given a certain amount of en-
couragement, I’m sure I could be of some use there as 3
Reformed Red Army Guard. (See picture.) Or perhaps you
would find me in one of their famous Friendship Shops,

selling rugs and things.

Reform is very much in the air
there. Whether they mean it is
hard to say, but they are certainly
going through the motions.

As stated in previous columns,
this foreigner was surprised at the
frankness of the official guides. At
the drop of a hat they would tell
you all about their personal lives,
for instance, and one young chap
destroyed another myth about the
Chinese when he declared he
wasn’t keen for him and his wife
and baby to live with his parents,
and that he refused to do so.

«this foreigner
was surprised at the
Srankness of the
official guides. At
the drop of a hat
they would tell you
ebout their personal
lives, for instance,
and one young chap
destroyed another
myth about the
Chinese when he
declared he wasn’t
keen for him and his
wife and baby to live
with his parents, and
that he refused to do

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so.

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He agreed that that used to be
the tradition, but no longer. ‘‘The
fact is,” he explained with feeling,
**that it would be impossible for
my wife, who would be expected to
take orders from my mcther. We
all want to be friends,’ he con-
tinued with a grin, ‘‘but at a
distance. And that’s the way most
of my generation feel.’’

Other unheard-of things are tak-
ing place. Next year, we were told,
anyone wanting to go to university
would have to pay for it. No ex-
ceptions. | found this hard to
believe, but was assured and re-
assured that it was so.

Interesting, seeing that socialists
in Canada continue to yell for
education freebies. But I guess it
takes the horrors of a cultural rev-
olution to bring the country to its
senses.

Already, a lot of people in
China are sending their kids to
university at their own expense. I

Mian jailed

A 33-YEAR-OLD White Rock
man was sentenced Oct. 7 in North
Vancouver provincial court to two
months in jail after he pleaded
guilty to driving a vehicle while he
was prohibited to do so.

quote the China Daily of Oct. 7,
which newspaper is popped under
your door every morning if you are
staying in a tourist hotel.

“Despite fees of 1,800 to 2,000
yuan a year at universities and 900
to 1,100 a year for professional
training schools, more than 5,000
young pecplc in Beijing alone ap-
plied to universities this year as
self-financing students....

‘About one-tenth of the
freshmen currently enrolled in the
capital’s universities and profes-
sional training schools are paying
their own way, according to the
Higher Education Bureau.”’

(The yuan is worth about 25
cents. But values are different in
China and the equivalent of $500
Canadian is a large sum. Some
people pay only five yuan a month
for rent.)

Actually, this step is a pitch to
students who fail the entrance ex-
aminations by a small margin. But
if the newspaper report is correct,
no stigma attaches to them on that
account.

**All of them feel proud because
they have paid for their education,
and they believe theinselves supe-
rior to their State-financed
schoolmates," it was declared.

Talk about heresy! If things
continue like this, right-wingers
like me will be given state recep-
tions in the Great Wall Hotel.

But not yet. One sees, for ex-
ample, that the powers are getting
a little worried about the urge to
make money that afflict the pea-
sants and former peasants, for in
the same newspaper it is also
reported that things cannot te
allowed to get out of hand.

‘The State Education Commis-
sion has notified all provincial
education departments and univer-
sities under its jurisdiction that
college students are forbidden to
engage in business on or off cam-
pus for the purpose of getting rich.

‘**Hardworking and thrifty
should be the college students’
watchwords, not getting rich and
living in luxury,’. said Yuan
Yongtan, an official with the in-
formation section of the State
Education Commission’s ad-
ministrative office.”’

It is clear from this small matter
that the struggie over which direc-
tion the country is to take is still
going on, with the old guard facing
the new. But it’s my guess that
unless the clamps are put on again
in the most forceful way, the new
guard will win. Any attempt to put
the clock back could bring about a
popular explosion.

To repeat. China is worth
visiting. You have to take the
rough with the smooth, but for the
tourist, at least, the rough is hardly
discernible, And you’ll like the
people @

for offence

Francois Martel was originally
charged in connection with an
Aug. 24 incident in North Van-
couver.

In addition to the jail sentence,
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