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Reflections on a Chinese factory visit and return home
The author recalls a three visits per year tea leaf harvest in China requiring long hand work. Describes a modern silk factory with over 2,000 workers exporting items, and a busy Shanghai grain port unloading four boats at once. Notes wheat from the US and Canada shipped to Angola stamped Gift from China. Observes government goals to raise living standards, shift labor from agriculture to industry, and praises conservation and hard work. Ends with appreciation for returning to America and Walt Whitman’s poetry about home.
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Shanghai
China
United States
Canada
Angola
Walt Whitman
America