Talk: Understanding China Then and Now: A Personal Journey [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: All Events, Learning/Education, and Presentations/Discussions
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Monday, April 11, 20221:00pm CDT – 2:00pm EDT
Fred Pincus
The US Left has had an evolving relationship with the Peoples Republic of China. Up until 1979 we were enamored with Mao’s socialism. But then when Deng Xiaoping began to move the country toward market socialism, ambivalence set in. What did friendship with revolutionary China mean then?
Baltimore socialist Fred Pincus experienced this odyssey. As an activist in the US-China Peoples Friendship Association, Fred was an early visitor to China in 1972 and 1974 during the Mao years before most USians could go there legally. He was a member of the editorial committee of New China magazine in the 1970s. and also covered China for The Guardian: An Independent Radical Newsweekly in the late 70s and early 80s.
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