ࡱ > I K H U@ bjbj ; 8 A d d d $ ! R o# X Q @ $ @ Q Q Q X Q , H h 6 p 0 A # X # # d " d d d q X Fact Sheet - Jung Changs Cultural Revolution Jung Chang is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. Here are some of her experiences of the Cultural Revolution. As a child I had always shied away from collective activity. Now, at fourteen, I felt even more averse to it. I suppressed this dread because of the constant sense of guilt I had come to feel, through my education, when I was out of step with Mao. I kept telling myself that I must train my thoughts according to the new revolutionary theories and practice. If there was anything I did not understand, I must reform myself and adapt. However, I found myself trying very hard to avoid militant acts such as stopping passers-by and cutting their long hair, or narrow trouser legs, or skirts, or breaking their semi-high-heeled shoes. These things had now become signs of bourgeois decadence, according to the Peking Red Guards. My own hair came to the critical attention of my schoolmates. I had to have it cut to the level of my earlobes. Secretly, though much ashamed of myself for being so petit bourgeois, I shed tears over losing my long plaits. . . . . All the things I loved were disappearing. The saddest thing of all for me was the ransacking of the library: the golden tiled roof, the delicately sculpted windows, the blue painted chairs . . . . . Bookshelves were turned upside down, and some pupils tore books to pieces just for the hell of it. Afterwards, X-shaped white paper strips with black characters were stuck on what was left of the doors and windows to signal that the building was sealed. Books were major targets of Maos order to destroy. Because they had not been written within the last few months, and therefore did not quote Mao on every page, some Red Guards declared that they were all poisonous weeds. (Extracts from Wild Swans, Chapter 16: Soar to Heaven, and Pierce the Earth Maos Red Guards Author: Jung Chang, Publisher: Harper Perennial). 0 1 2 ! Ϸ|l\lQIEIEIEIE hH% j hH% UhLt h\ CJ aJ hLt hLt 6CJ OJ QJ aJ hLt hIf 6CJ OJ QJ aJ hLt OJ QJ hIf CJ OJ QJ aJ hLt hIf CJ OJ QJ aJ hLt hIf >*CJ OJ QJ aJ hx3 OJ QJ .j hx3 CJ OJ QJ UaJ mH nH sH u hE hIf 5CJ OJ QJ aJ hLt 5CJ OJ QJ aJ hx3 j hx3 UmH nH sH u 0 2 t u < = ! dh ]gdIf dh ]^gdIf gdx3 $dh ]^a$gdIf $a$gdx3 dh ]gdIf hLt h\ CJ aJ hH% hIf j hIf UmH nH sH u . A!"#$% n GyIm*PNG IHDR . ) sRGB pHYs ~ |IDATx^e]p@C;}n/uq欮NILF#'HD 'ܥ[7=Oy"$@"'tح8#?HD Hڂ@בFءCǞu4:@"$͌@F;EGt>jqfCf#Ǟ$@";U>#c$@"дgiz5mS6-"9D HV{>[NaÆaO_%@"$T}&c.QwE?}4lD-HD eI{;kQ-kg/cB$@"дt<(cL. B6G<2~o2x@ӢOD9`at5^ϱҽw#Q߾囷3:/G$@!С{~7fz_raQ$M`7HfA=[ϱjIsDC