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| Name | Gung Ho: Rewi Alley of China (1980) |
| Video Uploader | Video From Archives New Zealand |
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| Video Discription | New Zealand National Film Unit presents Gung Ho: Rewi Alley of China (1980) 'It may yet rank as one of the great human adventures of our time.' So wrote famed sinologist Edgar Snow, of the remarkable work of Rewi Alley, the longest-lived European in China, and a Westerner unique in his understanding of Chinese culture and society. In making this documentary, Alley travelled a gruelling 15,000 kilometres with the film crew, re-tracing the events and achievements of his fifty two years with the people of the world's largest nation. Calling the peasants 'Chinas gold,' Alley made the slogan 'Gung Ho' - work together - an international by-word, when he organised co-operative industry to keep China fighting the Japanese in World War II. Later, on the edge of the Gobi Desert, he pioneered a school to teach industrial skills to Chinas peasants. He is the author of more than thirty books telling the before and after of the Chinese Revolution. In this programme, for the first time, he tells his own extraordinary story. A National Film Unit/Phase Three Films Co-production =========== On 2 December 1897 Rewi Alley was born. Rewi was born in the small town of Springfield in inland Canterbury, New Zealand. He was named after Rewi Maniapoto, a Māori chief famous for his resistance to the British military during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s. Alley's father was a teacher, and Rewi attended primary school at Amberley; then Wharenui School in Christchurch, where his father was appointed headmaster in 1905; and finally Christchurch Boys' High School. His mother, Clara, was a leader of the New Zealand women's suffrage movement. In March 1917 he volunteered for war service. He was wounded during combat in France and gained the Military Medal. Alley arrived in China on 21 April 1927. Over the next 10 years, working variously as a fire officer, factory inspector and relief worker, he laboured among the Chinese trying to improve their living and working conditions. He came to greater prominence during the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, after he was involved in efforts to found the Association of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (INDUSCO), commonly known by the slogan Alley coined, ‘Gung Ho/Work Together'. Gung Ho aimed to organise small-scale self-supporting cooperatives which created employment for workers, while continuing production to support resistance against the Japanese. By 1953 Alley had settled in Beijing. He immersed himself in writing about China and travelled extensively, speaking on behalf of international peace agencies, such as the World Peace Council. Before and after his death on 27 December 1987 the New Zealand and Chinese governments honoured Alley for his work in China. This film production was made by the National Film Unit in 1980. The National Film Unit was established to publicise New Zealand's participation and achievements during the Second World War. After 1945 the Film Unit expanded from producing weekly newsreels to making documentaries and films to the order of Government Departments. For updates on our On This Day series and news from Archives New Zealand, follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ArchivesNZ For further enquiries please email research.archives@dia.govt.nz Material from Archives New Zealand [ZLSQoclX_-w] |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | New Zealand | National Film Unit | Rewi Alley | China | Chinese | NZ | Chinese Revolution | Communist Party |
