SO CULTURE HAS COME
“ASHES OF HIROSHIMA” (Frank Clune)
“So c tlture has come to the masses in Shanghai. In one olock, about a hundred yards in the Bubbling Well Road, I counted sixty-two bookstalls, each surrounded by a little crowd, looking at the titles and sampling the contents of hooks, before they bought them. What soit of books were the newly literate masses of China reading ? Science? Philosophy? Religion? History? Travel? Politics? Art? Ethics and morals?
I )on't he silly. Most of the books displayed for salt were salaciously sexy, or plain pornographic. They were mostly “True Love” yarn:'., with sloeeyed, ruby-lipped houris alluringly depicted on the covert. Most of these books were printed in the Chinese language, but there were also printed editions of various books in the English language, nearly ;d! pornographic pcr\ ersities. Such is the first harvest of the New Literacy in China —at least in Shanghai.”—Extract.
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 6, 1 August 1951, Page 5
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