Tahsing

Huangtukang, or "Yellow Earth Mound", is the name of a well-known commune in Tahsing county south of Peking which I chose out of the many good communes around to visit, for some of its brigades have much to show in the way of dramatic change.

Even a short item, like Shoes to Strike Roots, by the amateur propaganda team of Tahsing county, near Peking, may use an elementary dialectic. This ten-minute dance provides a reminder of a tradition of the revolutionary wars when village women showed their support for the red soldiers by sewing cloth shoes for them out of pieces of rag.