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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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- Video
- Date created
- 1980
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/gung-ho-rewi-alley-of-china-1980
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- communism / china / gung ho / rewi alley / refugees / geoff chapple / guomindang / kuomintang / 1940s / chiang kai-shek / politics / chinese politics / teachers / education / military / army / red army / peking / the forbidden city / immigrant / immigrants / industry / industrial / industrial cooperatives / cooperative / allen alley / communist / communist party / petroleum / school principal / shanghai / revolution / chinese revolution / fire fighters / thiamine deficiency / beriberi / child labour / factories / factory / marxism / silk worm / mao zedong / mao / mongolia / 1980 / expat / expats / communist revolution / japan / industrial co-op / cultural revolution / indusco / shandan / chinese communist party / feng xi'an / shuangshipu / george hogg / shandan bailie school / talitha gerlach / cora deng / deng yuzhi / ywca / 1970s / 1979 / seventies / firefighters / chiang kai shek / child exploitation / forbidden city / co-op / archives new zealand
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