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Experiences During China's Cultural Revolution

in 1966 I was in the middle school when the culture of illusion started the biggest nation on earth China is in turmoil if China's aging leader Mao Zedong losing control has now gone mad driven perhaps to megalomania by the hysterical adulation of the teenage red guard of course I join is a glorious to join you I was totally a poor my energy even my life into it to support whatever Mao asked me to do Mao had decided to mobilize the young people as the driving force of a vast campaign to purify the Communist Party there was to be a new revolution a cultural revolution a revolution in people's thinking we went to Beijing Mao receive aza after we arrived we walk out in the middle of night because in the morning we are going to walk through a thermal square to see our great leader he was excited we saw he was a God inspired by mouth the Red Guards went wild in their enthusiasm to keep the revolution alive they worshiped Mao as their leader and follow his instructions without question they consider long hair western style clothes and communist teachers were the target of the potato campaign now keep taught us they have to receive the reeducation by the worker and peasant my female teacher I loved she liked to wear our beauty clothes she care for appearance there was a criminal accusation one boy went to her bedroom and leave so many people she went there to cut her hair I went there to lay the hair has been cut already he was a humidity I couldn't help I couldn't help I couldn't rescue her shame on me after reports of ratings beatings up and even murder the Red Guard seemed to have gone too far their leaders have told them to cool off and go and help with the harvest the L of 1967 I began to kind of reflection and I felt that Mao was not in control of the causal relation and we lucky live in the southern China there is a choice to escape to our Hong Kong I took this a risk and begin to my free life I study sociology and later on went to UC Berkeley for political science in America I settle with my family children grandchildren and also my career my business I'm 17 now now is the Rica generation 70 I hope that they reflect the regret that we exam was we prevent this kind human tragedy happen again