Friday. February 24. I957

Chino Turmoil ls Progress: Hinton

By Harold Fuson

Eeset by the inequities of dry
weather, Pennsylvania farmer
William Hinton took time oil
iron: his regular chores this
winter to, in his words, “or-
range some turbulence in China
to give me a platform from
which to speak,” and set oil on
n speaking tour to discuss the
“Cultural Revolution in Chi<
ha,”

The turbulence was no diifi-
cult matter for Hinton to are
range since, as he pointed out
in his talk to a lull South
Lounge on Monday night, “Sen-
ator Eastiand in 1956 proved in
a three hour speech to the Sen-
ate that I had singlehandedly
organized the Communist take-
over oi China.”

Mr. Hinton himself spent two
and a half hours, mostly de-
voted to answering student
questions, giving what he
called a positive view of the
cultural revolution. “China,"
Hinton maintains, “is at a turn-
ing point — a decade of transi«
tion."

The turbulence now taking
place has grown out of the ex-
pulsion or the old commercial
classes from the Chinese ruling
alliance, and represents a liter
tural transition to the next

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stage of the Chinese Socialist
revolution. The revolution, ac-
cording to Hinton, began in the
1340': with the first attempts
to overthrow Chinese feudalism
and expel foreign influence.

This first stage was not com-
pleted until 1949, when Mao Tse
Tong led an alliance of work-
ers, intellectuals and commer-
cial classes in overthrowing
Chisng Kai lhek’s Kuomintang
regime.

The expulsion oi the commer-
cial classes thus represents the
next stage in completing the so
oialist Evolution. In Hinton’i
well»iniormed but openly Marx-

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ist View, the turbulence now
taking place is not only pre-
dictable but absolutely neces-
sary. Moreover, it is not to be
interpreted as a weakening or
Mao’s grip on power, but as
yet another or the “waves in
which he has transformed
China."

Hinton, who speaks from a
broad background of research
and experience, has just pub-
lished a book describing his ex-
periences in China in the early
iilties, Fanshen, A Documem
tary of Revolution in s Chinese
Village.

Hinton first went to China as
a newspaperman in 1937. Eight
years later he returned as a
propaganda analyst {or the (1.5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

government. Again from 1941
until 1953 he served as a tractor
technician in China under I
United Nations program.
Returning to the US. in i953
with the notes [or his book, Hin-
ton found himself Caught in the
morass oi McCarthyism and
his notes confiscated by the
Customs Service. After three
years of legal battling, he re
gained them long enough to
have them impounded by Sen-
ator Eastland’s internal Securi-

ty Committee, Two years later.
the country having returned to
apathetic sanity, he iinally got
back his notes and began the
book, which he finished last

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. William Hinton
Photo By Surrn Kaesen

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