English

Noun

May 7th ‎(uncountable)

1. Used attributively to designate various institutions in the People's Republic of China which combine education with manual labour with a view to helping people understand life as a peasant. [from 20th c.]
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 239:

     This was the first leg of his labours. The second began with […] the names of such Shanghainese officials who, in consequence of criminal pro-Russian leanings, had been officially purged, humiliated or sent to a May 7th school to rediscover the virtues of peasant labour.