New Changes in China

There is at least one highly desirable result of the new turn in China—the “new Chinese man” has suddenly disappeared. He must be communing somewhere with the “new Soviet man” who took somewhat longer making an exit from the stage of history.

Who was this “new man” in China? He, or she, was always uncomplaining, nay, happy about unremitting and unremunerative toil. He moved mountains with a pick and shovel and disdained machinery because he was self-reliant and wouldn’t condescend to foreign devils. The “new man” had an unbelievable manner of speech. If his pick struck stone and he removed the boulder, he never forgot to explain that this was accomplished with the direct assi...