I do not want to compare Hinton to these Chinese officials, as I don't think they merit any comparison to her.
What deserves more attention, I think, is Hinton's and her husband's strength of character.
As a scientist involved in the nascent nuclear technology industry of the 1940s, Hinton gave up the opportunity to garner greater fame. Instead, she chose to come to the then backward China at the age of 27, devoting the rest of her life to the lackluster vocation of raising cows and renovating farm machines.
As veteran participants of the Chinese revolution, Hinton and Engst acquired a certain status in the hierarchy of officialdom during the 1980s. Even so, they refused to move to a more comfortable apartment that the government built for them, and continued living in a shabby farmhouse located in a Beijing suburb.
When their son was sent to the countryside like other youth to be "re-educated" during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), the American couple declined an offer from the leaders of their work units to get the boy back to Beijing. "We didn't send him there for a comfortable life," they said.
Even after China launched market-oriented reforms in the late 1970s, Hinton and Engst remained faithful to their dream of a Communist society. They criticized officials for "working for whoever has money rather than for penniless peasants" and questioned whether they still remembered "the Communism of the Yan'an era".
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