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The Earnshaw Vault
‘New China’ girl gives state £35,000Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Graham Earnshaw was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Beijing from 1980 to 1984, and he's been looking through his clippings, which seem to prove both that China has changed completely and also that China has stayed exactly the same. This spring and summer, Danwei will be publishing a series of these reports from the past. This is today's resurrected item: ‘New China’ Girl Gives State 35,000 PoundsBy Graham Earnshaw in Peking August 5, 1981 A 23-year-old girl in eastern China who recently inherited more than 35,000 pounds sterling has given the whole amount to the State “to help the country realize the four modernizations”, the People’s Daily reported yesterday. The paper said she did not have a place of her own to live and was staying at a friend’s house. “I wouldn’t be able top spend so much money in a whole lifetime, and anyway if I kept the money it would not bring me any real good fortune,” the paper quoted her a saying. “I belong to new China and real good fortune comes from relying on one’s own labours to support oneself.” |
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Comments on ‘New China’ girl gives state £35,000
Interesting how things have turned out today. While there are certainly lots of Chinese who need money, the government certainly doesn't need any to realize the four moderns or the harmonious society.
Now that I think about it, I wonder it that story wasn't embellished by the government a la Lei Feng.
It's interesting to think how that headline might read today.