Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon Sender: From: chengpi@ecf.toronto.edu (CHENG) Original-To: utchinese Subject: News Digest Message-ID: <89Oct23.200648edt.20852@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 89 20:06:45 EDT Newsgroups: ut.chinese Distribution: ut Sender: list-admin@csri.toronto.edu Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Oct. 23 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) Wang Ruowang Will be Punished for "Polluting the Thinking of Youth" .............................. 28 2) Three Pro-democracy demonstrators are allowed to stay in Taiwan ..... 53 3) China Totters on the Brink of Recession ............................. 45 4) China Opposes Taiwan to Be Admitted into GATT ....................... 15 5) CCP -- Rewriting History ALL the Time ............................... 56 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Wang Ruowang Will be Punished for "Polluting the Thinking of Youth" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: YAWEI%AQUA.DECnet@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (mr. yawei) [Source: Associated Press, 10/22/89] BEIJING(AP) - An official newspaper accused a well-known Shanghai writer and dissident of "polluting the thinking of youth" by taking part in the spring pro-democracy movement. It said he will be punished. The blistering commentary, which was published Friday and seen in Beijing Sunday, was the first public attack on 71-year-old Wang Ruowang, a prolific essayist. Wang was put under house arrest in June. "Wang is a writer in name, but his fame comes not from some outstand-ing writing but from some people calling him a 'democracy fighter,'" the Shanghai-based newspaper Wen Hui Bao said in a half-page commentary. "He even attacked Comrade Deng Xiaoping, calling him a 'power behind the throne,' and saying that 'the days when 1.1 billion people will submit to a monarch are over.'" An unknown number of students, professors, writers and other intellectuals have been jailed since the army crushed the democracy movement in June. Hong Kong papers since have reported Wang was taken into custody, but efforts to telephone his home for confirmation were unsuccessful. Wen Hui Bao did not say where Wang was but said: "In the end he will be punished according to the law," indicating he faces trial. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Three Pro-democracy demonstrators are allowed to stay in Taiwan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET (Jian Ding) [Source: Associated Press, 10/21/89] By: Annie Huang TAIPEI(AP) - A Chinese man and two women who fled China to aoid arrest for involvement in June's pro-democracy protests have secretly arrived for resettlement, officials said today. Government officials said the three, identified as Tien Hsin-jen, 43, Bai Hsueh, 26, and Chin Chin, 27, are the first Chinese involved in the pro-democracy movement to receive permission to settle in Taiwan. Seven others were expected to arrive later, the officials said. The three attended a news conference today arranged by the semi-official Free China Relief Association, but they continually used magazines to shield their faces from photographers. They said they feared Communist authorities might identify them from the photographs and persecute their relatives in China. Officials declined to say whether the three were using pseudonyms and refused to disclose how they escaped from China before arriving in Taiwan from undisclosed European countries earlier this week. A number of pro-democracy demonstrators, including student leaders, have fled China to escape arrest since June when Chinese troops rolled into Beijing's Tiananmen Square to suppress the movement. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of people died in the crackdown. Tien, who said he taught Russian in Beijing, said the three fled China through an "underground railroad" with the help of friends. He declined to elaborate, explaining: "Many other Chinese activists are still stranded in China or Hong Kong. We have just escaped danger ourselves and don't want to put others in danger." Ms. Bai, who said she was a high school teacher, said she helped organize anti-government demonstrations in the southern port of Fuzhou. She said her husband was arrested for helping her escape but he has since been released. Ms. Chin, who said she once worked as an art designer at Beijing's Central Television Station, declined to provide details of her involvement in the pro-democracy movement, explaining: "They (the Chinese) would know who I am if I told you what I did." Tien said he helped rush the injured to hospitals on June 4 when Chinese troops opened fire on demonstrators in Beijing. "I believe mainland China can gradually move toward a society of democracy and freedom although this would take a long and difficult process," Tien said. "More exchanges across the Taiwan Strait can help the mainland to achieve this purpose sooner." Vice Interior Minister Chang Lung-sheng told reporters the government is reviewing the resettlement applications of 91 other Chinese who said they were involved in the pro-democracy movement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. China Totters on the Brink of Recession ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tang@ssurf.ucsd.edu (Sanyee Tang) [Source: Wall Street Journal, 10/20/89] by Adi Ignatius Beijing -- China's slide toward recession is beginning to look like a free fall. In a report on China's foundering economy, the official State Statistical Bureau disclosed that industrial output last month rose 0.9% from a year earlier -- the lowest growth rate in a decade for September. Retail sales are plummeting, while consumer prices still are rising. Chinese and foreign economists now predict a prolonged stagflation: low growth and high inflation. "The economy is crashing hard," says an Asian economist in Beijing. "The slowdown is taking hold a lot more quickly and devastating than anyone had expected." A lengthy recession, if it materializes, would drain state and create severe hardships for urban workers. Experts predict the coming year will be characterized by flat or negative industrial growth, rising unemployment and a widening budget deficit. Unless the government suddenly reverses course, wages for most workers won't keep pace with inflation, creating a potential source of urban unrest. In Western, market-driven countries, recession often have a bright side: prodding the economy to greater efficiency. In China, however, there isn't likely to be any silver lining because the economy remains guided primarily by the state. Instead, China is likely to shell out ever-greater subsidies to its coddled state-run enterprises, which ate up $18 billion in bailouts last year. Nor are any of these inefficient monoliths likely to be allowed to go bankrupt. Rather, the brunt of the slowdown will be felt in the fast-growing private and semi-private "township" enterprises, which have fallen into disfavor as China's leaders reemphasize an orthodox Marxist preference for public ownership. "when the going gets tough, China penalizes the efficient and rewards the incompetent," says a Western economist. The statistical bureau's report, cited in China Daily, notes that industrial output in September totaled $29.4 billion, a rise of just 0.9% from a year earlier. Output declined in several provinces, including Jiansu and Zhejiang, two key coastal areas, and Sichuan, the nation's agricultural breadbasket. Production in Shanghai, China's industrial powerhouse and the largest source of tax revenue for the central government, fell 1.8% for the month. Nationwide, output of light industrial products declined 1.8% -- "the first decline in ten years," a bureau spokesman told China Daily. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. China Opposes Taiwan to Be Admitted into GATT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tang@ssurf.ucsd.edu (Sanyee Tang) [Source: Wall Street Journal, 10/20/89] China said the question of Taiwan's membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade should be considered only after China's own membership in the 97-nation organization is restored. Both China and Taiwan are seeking seats in GATT, which sponsors trade liberalizing agreements and sets world-commerce rules. "As one of China's provinces, Taiwan has no right to join GATT on its own," Foreign Ministry spokesman Li Zhaoxing said. China, under Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, was a founding member of GATT in 1947. The nationalists withdrew in 1950, after their flight to Taiwn, and the Communist government in Beijing, applied for restoration of China's membership in July 1986. The U.S. has voiced opposition to China's bid for GATT membership, saying China has yet to undertake needed economic reforms. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. CCP -- Rewriting History ALL the Time ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sl185003@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Y S Tang) [Source: soc.culture.china, 10/22/89] In the October issue of "Nineties", a Hong Kong "counter-revolutionary" magazine, a few photos were published: 1,2) Two versions of the painting "Ceremony of the Foundation of the People's Republic". In the painting standing behind Mao Tze-tung are Chou En- lai, Chu T'eh, Liu Shao-ch'i, Soong Ch'ing-ling, Lee Chi4-shen1, Chang1 Lan2 and Kao1 Kang3; Kao Kang vanished in the second version as he had been charged as the leader of an anti-Party clique (together with Jao2 Su4-Shih2 in the 1950's). 3) In 1958, the CCP government launched lots of high yield "satellites" [means a harvest record rises as high as a satellite] in agriculture. The photo was originally published in "People's Pictorial." It showed three kids standing on the top of rice stems in a farming field. The caption was like this: "The First Chien4 Kuo2 Farm in Ma2 Ch'eng2 County of Hu2 Pei3 Province sets a high yield record of 36,956 chin1 per mu3 in their 1,016 mu of spring rice field. Look! What the density of the rice plants! Standing on them, the children feel like standing on a very soft sofa." (For your reference, normally in my uncle's field we have about 800 chin1 of rice per mu3.) 4,5) In 1958, the Ming Tomb Reservoir was being built. Mao Tze-tung, P'eng2 Chen1 (then the Mayor of Peking) and others went there to "voluntarily" contribute their labor. P'eng Chen was ousted during the "Cultural Revolution". When Mao died in 1976, the authority published the same photo again, but with P'eng Chen vanished. (The people behind P'eng were skillfully recovered.) 6,7) The peak time of the "Cultural Revolution", 1968. Mao Tze-tung and his "Intimate Co-fighter (ch'in1 mi4 chan4-you3)" Lin Piao were sitting together in the 12th Plenum of the 8th CCP Central Committee. After the "Lin Piao Incident", again in the official photos published after Mao died, Lin Piao and his chair both disappeared in that photo. (The curtain behind him was recovered. Not much skill required though.) 8,9) The CCP VIPs in the front row in the memorial service for Mao in 1976, the "Gang of Four" Wang2 Hung2-wen2, Chang1 Ch'un1-ch'iao2, Chiang1 Ch'ing1, and Yao2 Wen2-yuuen2 were standing in the noticeable positions in 8). Same photo 9) was published in "People's Pictorial" after the "Gang" was crushed, and they were gone (leaving several empty spots and something used to be behind them being revealed. Amazing modern technology, says Yaun2 Mu4), however, in the caption (to indicate there used to be someone there) their names were replaced by X's. 10) In April 1980, Beijing held the Army's Political Work Meeting, Deng Xiaoping led other CCP leaders to attend the closing ceremony. Then Hu2 Yao4- pang1, Chao4 Tze3-yang2, Lee Hsian1-nien4, Hua4 Kuo2-feng1 were not present. But they were added in this photo. However, their heights were not on the real scale: comparing with others, Hu Yao-pang looked remarkably tall. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Deming Tang E_mail: Tang@ALISUVAX.bitnet | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu .