Behind Bamboo Curtain
Journalist John Strohm recounts life under Communist rule in Red China noting adequate food and improving housing, high factory wages for some, strict state control over religion and education, and a push to modernize with apartment blocks and collective farming. He visits worker apartments, schools, and public facilities highlighting rationing, literacy drives, and cultural life from Meilan Fang to local temples.
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John Strohm
New York
NEA
Red China
Red Chinese Collect One Of Everything Says Strohm
New York based John Strohm, after a 7 500 mile tour behind the Bamboo Curtain, quips that Red China seems to collect one of everything. He cites one foreign bishop one foreign owned business in Shanghai and one Catholic school in Peiping.
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Red
China
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Peiping
China Church Confronts State Consolidation Of Faiths
A NEA Service report notes five million Catholics in China facing deported foreign priests and a rise of Patriotic Priests moving toward a state church. Protestant denominations also consolidate under pressure, while church leaders describe unity as an act of God amid past rivalry.
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Nanking Union Theological Seminary
NEA Service, Inc
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