Talk:Work unit

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 September 2019 and 25 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ashleyshiyansun.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 09:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

'More appropriate'

This is typical outmoded linguistic prescriptivism. If Chinese people use danwei to refer to their workplace, then this is the meaning of the word. If scholars writing in English have picked it as a term for something specific to the Maoist period, that is their problem, not that of the Chinese population. The article should explain neutrally that in English academic literature on Chinese economy and history, the term is used more specifically to refer to the unit as it functioned in the Maoist period, without claiming that other usages are 'inappropriate'. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 08:20, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Language

'during the period when the Chinese economy was not as developed and more heavily reliant on welfare for access to long-term urban workers'

This doesn't make sense to me on the grammatical level. Who/what had access to whom/what? Normally I'd say workers had access to welfare, but here it sounds as if someone (who?) somehow (how?) used welfare in order to obtain 'access' (in what sense and for what purposes?) to workers. 'In Soviet Russia, welfare has access to YOU!' 62.73.72.3 (talk) 08:24, 15 November 2024 (UTC)