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Zhang Lijia: Socialism is Great!

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An interview with Zhang Lijia, an author and journalist who spent most of the 1980s as a worker in a missile factory in Nanjing. She has just published a book called 'Socialism is great!' A Worker's Memoir of the New China.

Interview by Jeremy Goldkorn, shot and edited by Ren Bo.

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  • She's not advocating Socialism. She's quoting the title of a song the Communist Party forced her to sing in the 1980's every July 1st. She uses it as an ironic twist, but she clearly states that she does not advocate Socialism.

    She says she was very controled and the reason the period is so fascinating is becausr it was the beginning of the real change. China is not Socialist or Communist any longer..."and people enjoy much more personal freedom"

  • "socialism is great" is the title of the book but it doesn't promote socialism. It is the name of a song she sang every often in her early years in the factory. The author uses this title as an icon representing the time.

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  • 有中国特色的社会主义

  • China is currently practicing State Capitalism so the government is still involved in the marketplace.

  • China is no longer socialist or communist. Just by name they are communist. Stupid North Korea still believes in Communism...

  • China is not a socialist anymore, nor Communist!! The ideology of both have died completely!

  • China is Socialist / Communist still fukk China

  • fuck China

  • Listen to the video and maybe then you would realise that she meerly mocking the song she used to sing in the missle factory in her title "socilism is great"

    Her book is about her experiances during her younger years in China not why socilism is great your retard.

  • At least you understand what she was on about!! :)

  • 中华民族是一个大家庭 ^.^

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