ROLE OF NON-COMMUNIST INTELLECTUALS AND LIBERALS IN PEIPING

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100330009-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Role of Yon-Communist Intellectwals
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to fl y major domestic policy decisions on the part of the I e p Government
represent compromises bet-icon proposals originally made by the Chinese
Communist officials and cotter-proposa"? s made by liberals and intellectuals.
The recent decision to cancel another i,sue of bonds, the recent moderation
of taxes in the cities, then n tr decisio:t to leave rich farmers alone in
order to increane production, t hd- d.ecis Ion not to start land reform in
many parts of South China, enr? the poli :fir of slotting dote the pace of making
over the universities all bear the nark, of long discussions and arguments
between government officials on the one hand and non-Party people such
as liberals and intellectuals on the other, In maaty cases the recom-
mendations of the non'Party persons ove-,rrode recommendations of Soviet
advisers. For exnmple, Soviet advisers wished to eliminate many li eral
y, in, the universities, but the decision
arts departments, such as ociolog
was made to precer8ve them
20 On quer~-'.ons of deestic administration and reform, the Communists have
won the eupport of the majority of libe:^als by giving earnest attention
to their opinions and proposals. As a -eault 80 percent of tIIe liberals
fully support all the r:pverrrmentz s ma jo.?? reforms , (In contrast, 90 percent
of these same liberals have many reserv,-,tione on lei s foreign policy.)
any of these liberals are, however, by no means sycophants, but are on
the contrary very critical of the ;over:-meats Even so, the government
has given them substantial positions in many of the important committees
and departments in order to win their cooperation. This policy of the
Communists has been very successful. F.-,r example, TA Chan, a Peiping
professor concerned with labor problems, has always been very conservative,
and his ideas have shown no similarity Z6. Communist Party attitudes and
ideology Despite this he was given the post of Vice Chief of the Labor
Department of the Central Governraent, mad. is regularly pressed not to consider
the position an empty title but to devote time to actual department ad-
ministration( This pressure has been at enough to involve him in
difficulties with the university adnini ;atrati.on0 which requires him to
teach full time.
So Bost of the leading intellectuals of go :,d academic reputation are work' ng,
with the government in one trey or anoth~:,r, regardless of political
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