Houtouwan,as an affluent community of entrepreneurial fishermen, did not completely...

[narrator] Houtouwan,
as an affluent community of entrepreneurial fishermen, did not completely escape the cultural revolution's
destructive reach. the cultural revolution's
destructive reach. [Meigs] One facet
of Chinese communism is deep distrust
of individualism. So farms were collectivized. Raising your own plot
of tomatoes or rice was
really discouraged. By the same token,
the Chinese government tried to reorganize the way
the fishing business worked