They may have had "revolutionary" aspirations back in the twenties and thirties, but reverted to their old peasant outlook once in power. Interested only in preserving their own privileges, they distrust intellectuals and fear foreigners, and are a serious obstacle to any "modernization."
因此，毫不奇怪，一旦他們得到權勢，就恢復過去他們鄉村家庭的老觀念；他們痛恨當局，疑忌各種改革，只關切自己家人的安適，並且對科技知識分子的重要性感到懷疑。