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In vividly dramatic form, this play tells how a remote Chinese village comes to terms with Communism. Every revolution creates new words. The Chinese revolution created a whole new vocabulary in which a very important word is fanshen which literally means to turn the body or to turn over. To hundreds of millions of landless and poor peasants it means to stand up, throw off the landlords'' yoke, and gain land, stock, and houses. Moreover it means to enter a new world and this play is the story of how the peasants of Long Bow build a new world.2 women, 7 men

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    A Paperback by David Hare, William Hinton

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      Publisher Samuel French Ltd
      Published 4 January 1977
      ISBN-13 9780573017032
      978-0573017032
      ISBN-10 0573017034
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      Book Synopsis
      In vividly dramatic form, this play tells how a remote Chinese village comes to terms with Communism. Every revolution creates new words. The Chinese revolution created a whole new vocabulary in which a very important word is fanshen which literally means to turn the body or to turn over. To hundreds of millions of landless and poor peasants it means to stand up, throw off the landlords'' yoke, and gain land, stock, and houses. Moreover it means to enter a new world and this play is the story of how the peasants of Long Bow build a new world.2 women, 7 men

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