Not even the communes. not even total control of Chinas education system. not even Chairman Maos daily recitations prevented this young man and thousands like him from seeking something called freedom. In fact. the widely respected China expert. Raymond de Jaegher. who interviewed some 20.000 refugees from mainland China who had escaped to Hong Kong during the cultural revolution. said these young people had never even heard of Chiang Kaishek and know nothing of the politics of Taiwan. They told De Jaegher. who interviewed them for an Asian affairs magazine. that the Communists had warned them so sternly and so many times not to come near Hong Kong because of the supposed "evil" influence there. that they knew conditions had to be better in Hong Kong than on the mainland. Speaking recently to an Asian seminar in Washington. de Jaegher told of having breakfast with a young girl who had escaped from the mainland to Hong Kong last December.
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