Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987
Yo banfa! (We have a way!) Edited by Shirley Barton. Foreword by Joseph
Needham. (Shanghai, China Monthly Review, 1952)
Rewi Alley was a New Zealand journalist who arrived in Shanghai in 1927 when the
Communist forces and the Kuomintang were fighting. He became a Communist after
seeing the conditions under which the Chinese were living and witnessing some of
the atrocities inflicted by the KMT. Later, during the Japanese invasion he
helped set up a series of Chinese Industrial Co-operatives with the slogan "Gung
Ho", a revolutionary slogan meaning "work together". This is thought to be the
way in which the phrase entered English.
