By Gao Yuan
Born pink is an artistically wrought own account, written a great deal from contained in the adventure, of the years 1966-1969, whilst the writer was once a tender teen at center institution. It used to be within the center faculties that a lot of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and crimson shield stream was once spent, and Gao was once stuck up in very dramatic occasions, which he recounts as he understood them on the time. Gao's father was once a county Read more...
Hold of historical past --
Learning to be purple and professional --
Thirty-six stratagems --
Hidden messages --
Ox ghosts and snake spirits --
Winds and waves --
Degenerate and the worn shoe --
The purple, the black, and the in-between --
Smashing the 4 olds --
Cleaning our personal nest --
Picking up the items --
Rebels and royalists --
Going to determine the good helmsman --
Sending off the monsters --
Defending the mountain satan --
Carpenter secret agent --
Reply from a socialist-roader --
On the line --
Rocks down the good --
Long march, via hook or criminal --
Spring pageant viewers --
Capless authentic --
Smears and skirmishes --
Spring buds --
Arrival of the cadets --
Grand alliance --
Uncommon laughter --
Victory fish --
First martyr --
Summons by way of subterfuge --
Storming the enemy stronghold --
Spies available to buy --
Family skeletons --
Playing with hearth --
Obstinacy of fact --
On the run --
From victors to vanquished --
Living in limbo --
Class brothers take revenge --
Radiance of the environment sunlight --
Three loyalties and 4 boundless loves --
Hostage for a pastime --
Twelve-force storm --
Irretrievable prior --
The approach out.
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This dictum became the rationale for an assault on Chinese culture and the persecution of countless men and women. But the Cultural Revolution, which destroyed so much, could not construct: its ideals were overwhelmed by the violence that became its motive force, its claim to be a moral cause was belied by the hatred on which it was built. That the new order emerging in the movement's wake bears so little resemblance to all Mao hoped might rise from the ashes of his crusade against revisionism is but the Cultural Revolution's final irony.
But I was just an ordinary member, whereas she was a brigade leader. Every year, she made the list of "three-good" students-those who exemplified good schoolwork, good ideology, and good health. When we entered Yizhong, we were assigned to share a desk. At first, we drew a chalk line down the middle of the desktop, dubbed the McMahon Line by our classmates after the boundary that had been in dispute during the 1962 border war between India and China. At first, Yuling and I rarely talked. Gradually, as the line rubbed off, I began asking her for help with English, and she asked me for help with math.
Sanxi would say. " "Who are you to insult my father? He climbed snowtopped peaks and crossed dangerous marshlands to help make the revolution, and what was your father doing? " Yuanchao would be quaking with anger, but the easygoing Sanxi would merely shrug and resume heaving buckets. When the cart was full, Sanxi would position himself between the shafts like a donkey and lift them from the ground. The rest of us pushed and pulled to help him haul the load to the manure pit by the vegetable garden behind Rear Lake.