communist premises, such as newspaper offices, and to pro-communist villages in
the New Territories to assist farm workers have become common.
45.
One side effect, as it were, of the amount of time devoted to activities
outside the classroom is that it takes care of the children for many hours when a
harrassed working mother would otherwise be unable to cope. Children from communist
schools spend less time playing on the streets, while both parents are out at work,
than many others. Meals are obtainable at almost all communist schools and the
willingness of the teachers to spend time after school and during the holidays in
activities with the children means that the schools provide something of a social
service quite apart from their educational role.
Visits to China
46.
The
Students and staff members of communist schools are subjected to intensive
indoctrination during frequent visits to China. These visits range from one day
trips to Shum Chun to extensive tours of more remote places such as Yenan and Shao
Shan, Hunan Province (MAO's birthplace), two places which equate to Mecca in the
eyes of Chinese communist followers. Trips have been made to Peking, Shanghai,
Nanking and, of course, to Canton and other places in Kwangtung Province.
trips were suspended when the cultural revolution was at its height but they have
been resumed since 1968 and are now taking place with increasing frequency. They
more often than not, subsidised and provide an opportunity for the visitors
from Hong Kong to see China under the most favourable circumstances; there is
little doubt that they develop the enthusiasm of the visitors through collective
group effort (an essential and subtle principle of communist indoctrination).
Participants return fired with enthusiasm for what they have seen and ready to
devote their lives to spreading the MAO gospel.
are,
4+7.
Special attention is paid to representatives from local communist schools
who make the annual pilgrimage to Peking to attend the 1st October Celebrations as
they have the distinction of seeing MAO himself when he makes one of his rare
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