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Gung Ho - Rewi Alley of China

Gung Ho - Rewi Alley of China
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Gung Ho - Rewi Alley of China
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Expat Kiwi Rewi Alley became one of the best known foreigners in 20th Century China, and an advocate for the Communist Revolution. When China was under siege from Japan in the 1930s, Alley instigated an industrial co-op movement he termed 'gung ho' (work together). Its success led to the phrase entering the global idiom. Alley founded Bailie schools to train youth in the skills needed for industrial co-ops. Director Geoff Steven and a small crew travelled 15,000 kilometres in China in 1979, f...

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1980
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