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2008-05-05 China-Japan-Koreas

1981: China Drops 'Jobs For All' Policy

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Posted by gromky 2008-05-05 07:41|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 In a major policy shift

A major policy shift is certainly interesting, but unless my eyes deceive me, the dateline on this article is 1981 - over two decades ago. Are we having a slow news day?

Posted by SteveS 2008-05-05 10:32|| 2008-05-05 10:32|| Front Page Top

#2 From the Danwei site:

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.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-05-05 11:31|| 2008-05-05 11:31|| Front Page Top

#3 But many young people, brought up under Chairman Mao to condemn small traders as evil speculators or "bourgeois remnants", are not willing to take such jobs.

I call BS. Mao died in 1976, over 30 years ago, so nobody under the age of 30 even remembers him.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-05-05 14:13|| 2008-05-05 14:13|| Front Page Top

#4 The article was written in 1981. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2008-05-05 14:26|| 2008-05-05 14:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, jeez, I thought it was clearly labeled as a story from 1981. Don't know how I could have made it clearer...a bigger font, perhaps.

Posted by gromky 2008-05-05 14:42|| 2008-05-05 14:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Proof that the ComChi's are more intelligent and can adapt than the Donks.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-05 15:50|| 2008-05-05 15:50|| Front Page Top

#7 I call BS. Mao died in 1976, over 30 years ago, so nobody under the age of 30 even remembers him.

I guess the people who visit China and take pictures of all the Mao posters in Tiananmien Square are bullshitting me, as are all the Chinese people you run into who are apologists for all the things they think Mao did under the excuse "No Mao, No China."

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-05-05 19:24|| 2008-05-05 19:24|| Front Page Top

#8 "No Mao, No China"

What's the downside?

(We already know the downside of Mao. *spit*)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-05 19:39|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-05-05 19:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, jeez, I thought it was clearly labeled as a story from 1981. Don't know how I could have made it clearer

Sorry I was not more clear.

Why are you posting articles from 1981?

Posted by SteveS 2008-05-05 20:45|| 2008-05-05 20:45|| Front Page Top

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