biography
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| lived:
| (1897–1987)
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| biography:
| Writer and teacher, born in Springfield, Canterbury, New Zealand. After service in World War 1 and a failed farming venture, he went to China in 1927. There he spent the rest of his life promoting the concept of industrial co-operative education. From 1938 he was involved with the Gung Ho (‘work together’) scheme, and from 1945 at Shandan in China he directed a model school to teach peasants how to produce goods for the community by employing low technology methods. He wrote over 70 books, including volumes of travel and poetry. Sympathetic to the Communists, he was one of the few Westerners who remained in China after they came to power there in 1949. |
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