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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 8. April 17 1978

Why Go to China?

Why Go to China?

The NZUSA China Delegation tour is not a trip designed especially for the ideologically sympathetic. Nor is it a trip designed like a "Cook's Tour". It is a tour designed to enable ordinary students from New Zealand (and overseas students here) to see, and hopefully learn, for themselves what is happening in one of the most economically, socially and politically interesting, but least understood, societies in the modern world. It is a tour which combines the normal touristy sight-seeing with visits and discussions which seek to explain the very fabric of China today.

You won't learn about and understand everything that is happening in China but you will at least have a better opportunity than most others to begin to understand the country, the people and the forces which motivate their socio-economic' system.

It is an experience of a society based on almost entirely different premises from that of New Zealand society. Straight comparisons between the two societies cannot be made for the historical variables are too great and diverse. The comparisons to be made are between the Myth of China which exists in the western world today, and the Reality'