Neale Hunter’s “The Three Hundred Percenters” in the Far Eastern Economic Review‘s 7/13 April 1968 issue offers insights to the values and ideologies of foreigners living amidst the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai during 1967 and 1968.
This split continued into the Red Guard groups that were formed by foreigners. Before long a paper war was raging in the Friendship Hotel, and big-character posters chronicled the “crimes” of each faction. Accusations ranged in depth from “betraying the world revolution” to “sleeping with Mrs X”. What the Chinese thought of all this is not on record.No tags for this post.
[...] The People’s Daily has got the scoop on how the “foreign experts and international friends” entertain themselves:In spare time, the daily said, many foreigners like to watch the arrangement of traditional houses in city alleys, or enjoy Chinese folk music accompanied by cups of tea.(For comparison, please refer to “The Three Hundred Percenters” of 1968.) [...]