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Hand-grenade Practice in Peking: My Influence on the Cultural Re
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780719557811
- Book Title
- Hand-Grenade Practice in Peking: My Influence on the Cultural Revolution
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 21mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Government, History, Travel Writing
- Item Width
- 142mm
- Item Weight
- 414g
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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`In 1975 I went to Peking for a year, together with nine other British students who had been exchanged by the British Council for ten Chinese students. The latter knew exactly what they were doing: learning English in order to further the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We were less sure. `From 1966, China had been turned upside down by young Red Guards who were encouraged to `Bombard the Headquarters'. Professors, surgeons, artists, pianists, novelists and film directors were attacked for their bourgeois pursuit of excellence or their attachment to decadent Western ideas. `Though by 1975 there were no longer violent street battles or badly beaten bodies floating down the Pearl River, we found Peking University governed by a Revolutionary Committee of workers, peasants and Party members determined that we should not learn too much and become experts divorced from the masses. `With our Chinese classmates, we spent half our time in factories, getting in the way of workers making railway engines, or in the fields, learning from peasants how to bundle cabbage or plant rice seedlings in muddy water. Heroically, we stayed up half the night to dig rather shallow underground shelters in case of nuclear attack. Much of the rest of the time was spent in class, with two compulsory hours of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought every Saturday morning and compulsory sport, which included hand-grenade throwing. I studied Chinese history which had to be revised overnight when Deng Xiaoping was criticized for the second time and erased from the record. The constant hammering of political rhetoric, broadcast from tannoys hidden in every tree, and the endless expositions of Marxist-Leninist dialectic were only interrupted by funeral announcements as yet another ancient revolutionary went to join karl Marx. `Just after I returned home, the Great Helmsman himself, Chairman Mao, died. Within weeks, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was not only over but renamed `The Ten Disastrous Years'. The reinstated Deng Xiaoping bounced back and declared that it was glorious to be rich: all my helpful digging and enginemaking had been a mistake.'
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Publisher
John Murray Press
ISBN-13
9780719557811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89377654
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hand-Grenade Practice in Peking: My Influence on the Cultural Revolution
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Government, History, Travel Writing
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
21mm
Item Width
142mm
Item Weight
414g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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