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Bygones: In Memory Of The 50th Anniversary Of China's Cultural Revolution
Автор: Tang Win
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- Издатель:
- Austin Macauley
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- Apr 25, 2018
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Tang Win’s Bygones is a brutally honest first-person account of his early life as one of the leaders of the controversial Red Guards during China’s Cultural Revolution some half a century ago.
Candid and forthright in his approach, Tang Win courageously recounts his entry into the political arena, inspired by the revered Chairman Mao, and how he struggled in the dangerous whirlpool of politics and in the bloody mass infighting.
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Bygones: In Memory Of The 50th Anniversary Of China's Cultural Revolution
Автор: Tang Win
Длина: 164 стр.2 ч
Описание
Tang Win’s Bygones is a brutally honest first-person account of his early life as one of the leaders of the controversial Red Guards during China’s Cultural Revolution some half a century ago.
Candid and forthright in his approach, Tang Win courageously recounts his entry into the political arena, inspired by the revered Chairman Mao, and how he struggled in the dangerous whirlpool of politics and in the bloody mass infighting.
- Издатель:
- Austin Macauley
- Издано:
- Apr 25, 2018
- Формат:
- Книге
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Tang Win graduated from the Sichuan Foreign Language Institute in Chongqing, China in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. He used to work as an interpreter and teacher of English and manager of international trade for years in different countries around the world. Bygones is his first work in English.
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Bygones - Tang Win
About the Author
Tang Win graduated from Sichuan Foreign Language Institute in Chongqing, China, in 1982, with bachelor’s degree in English literature. He used to work as an interpreter, teacher of English and manager of international trade for years in different countries of the world. Bygones is his first work in English.
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Bygones: In Memory of the 50th Anniversary of China’s Cultural Revolution
Published by Austin Macauley at Smashwords
Copyright 2018 Tang Win
The right of Tang Win to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All Rights Reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with the written permission of the publisher, or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
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Bygones: In Memory of the 50th Anniversary of China’s Cultural Revolution, 2018
ISBN 978-1-78710-578-2 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-78710-579-9 (Kindle E-Book)
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.
First Published in 2018
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CGC-33-01, 25 Canada Square
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Beginning of Cultural Revolution
Chapter 2: Cultural Revolution at School
Chapter 3: House Search & Destroy the 4 Olds
Chapter 4: Founding of Rebel Organizations
Chapter 5: Struggle Against Capitalist Roaders
Chapter 6: Seizing Power in January
Chapter 7: Suppression of Counter Revolutionaries in February
Chapter 8: Sit-in in front of Public Security Bureau
Chapter 9: July 6 Sudden Attack
Chapter 10: July 24 Mass Fighting
Chapter 11: To Beijing for Help
Chapter 12: Massacre of Prisoners of War
Chapter 13: Armed Reinforcement of Luzhou
Chapter 14: Guerrilla War in Mountains
Chapter 15: Organizing Armed Forces in Zigong
Chapter 16: Defensive in Longchang
Chapter 17: Offensive of Dazu
Chapter 18: Fighting Back to Hometown
Chapter 19: Educated Youth in the Country
Chapter 20: Dawn of Hope
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Preface
Just as the old proverb goes: let bygones be bygones. The past will never come back again. If it could re-come or be renewable, I would enjoy it in quite a different manner, for my youth was passed in the years of fighting and turmoil, filled with blind faith, crazy personal cult, childish impulsion, going through water and fire, and full of cold-blooded killings.
The following is the true story of my sees and hears, my own experiences in the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, some 50 years ago, when I was in my mid-teens, at an age one should be studying in school and immersed in family warmth and love, but I was at that time one of the leaders of the Red Guards and a commander in those deadly infightings.
I wrote it down here from memory, for a true display of real facts. I tried hard to recall the past events in as much detail as possible, as in great depth and broad scope as I could, which, I hope, will provide a better understanding to the outside world.
The year of 2016 is the 50th anniversary of China’s Cultural Revolution. I wrote this book for a permanent memory for those, living or dead, who once struggled so heroically, or dedicated their lives so selflessly, in the Cultural Revolution, so that all those will not fade away in peoples’ minds. As for their merits and mistakes, contributions or crimes, the history will give a fair judgement, and the people will have their final evaluation.
By Tang Win
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Chapter 1
Beginning of Cultural Revolution
In May 1966, I was only 15 years old, studying in grade 3 of Jiangjin Middle School.
Jiangjin is situated on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, some 70 kilometers in the west of Chongqing. The Yangtze comes from the west Tibetan plateau, rushes between snow-capped mountains, across the wild open spaces of prairies, through green hills in Sichuan basin, and runs a curve like a letter n
around the town of Jiangjin. Then it rolls restlessly to the east, to the Three Gorges and the sea. Jiangjin is an agricultural county with a population of around 1,000,000, with the town of Jiangjin as its center in politics, economy and culture. It is the homeland of Marshal Nie Rongzhen, who, as asked by the leaders of the local government, wrote an inscription of Jiangjin is a good place
in the 1980s.
Jiangjin Middle School was then one of the four key middle schools in Sichuan province. It is located at the foot of Mount Din，with tall buildings in its beautiful campus. A well-educated teaching staff is gathered there for different courses.
The school was founded in late Qing Dynasty in1906. It is well known for its teaching quality and efficiency. Every year, many graduates from the school were enrolled by famous colleges in China, like Beijing University and Qinhua University. It had been the Alma Mater of Marshal Nie Rongzhen. His name can still be seen in the students’ name list on an old wall of a classroom in the school.
On the main gate of the classroom building, there was inscribed in the wall a slogan in scarlet paint of Chairman Mao’s teachings: Education must serve the proletarian politics, and must be combined with productive labor.
And this supreme instruction was carried out in all the teaching work of the school.
I was at that time a top student in the class, clever and hard-working, full of vigor and vitality. I became a member of the Communist Youth League as soon as I came to the age of 15 and was appointed the director in the league branch in charge of political propaganda. I got the best results in all courses and was chosen as an excellent student in studying Chairman Mao’s works.
We usually had two classes for politics every week, studying Marxism, Mao’s works, the history of the Communist Party, and the like.
Since childhood, from kindergarten to primary school, we were repeatedly told by our teachers, that we, the new generation, were the happiest one, for we were born in a new China, growing up under the red banners, and would become in future the successors to the great communist cause. So we must study hard, being red and expert, so as to live up to the Party’s expectations.
It was deeply stamped in our mind, young and naïve, that we should study Chairman Mao’s works, listen to Chairman Mao’s teachings, and do everything according to Chairman Mao’s instructions.
I once met a group of young students in the campus, and I knew they were newcomers, but to my astonishment, they told me that they had all known me. I asked them the reason and they told me a funny story.
Their teacher of political course openly told them in class that there was a student in class 3, grade 66, named Tang Win. And the teacher could remember clearly that she once asked Tang the following question:
Mr. Tang Win, what are you going to win in future?
Without any hesitation, Tang answered: We are going to win the final victory of international communism worldwide.
The teacher highly praised him for his lofty ideal, which, she thought, had set up a shining example for other students.
The story was true, for at that time most students were thinking in that way.
Another outstanding characteristic in the school education was physical labor.
Since Jiangjin Middle School was the best school in the county, so it was commonly regarded as an honor for every student to be enrolled by the school. It was clearly required in the enrollment notice that every new student should prepare for himself necessary farming tools on registration, like hoe, stickle, a pair of bamboo baskets and a shoulder pole.
We had physical labor for two afternoons every week.
There was a large farm in the school, growing different kinds of vegetables for students’ and teachers’ dining rooms. The farm was divided into pieces to different classes, and then further divided to every student. I got two small pieces of land, with rows of green cabbages growing there and I was responsible for taking care of them.
On the second day after I got the task, soon after the lunch, when I was sitting in the classroom to relax myself, a fellow student ran toward me and told me that many worms were crawling on the tender leaves of the cabbages. I lost no time in rushing out of the classroom, dashing to the farm fields. I crouched by the land, watching closely on the cabbages. Yes, there were a lot of worms there. I wondered, for I had checked it carefully the day before, where did the worms come from? I looked up, and saw a few butterflies were still flying over the cabbages. In Chinese traditional culture, butterfly is always regarded as a symbol of beauty and love. But in the farm, they were nothing but my enemy. I picked up the worms one by one, and killed them in the mud with a sharp stone and drove all the butterflies as far away as possible.
Beside the farm work, we still got a lot to do. The school leaders decided to build a wall encircling the whole school. The work should be carried out strictly according to the Party’s diligence and frugality policy. And all building materials should be selected and prepared locally. Every class had to fulfil a certain length of the wall. And we started the work right away.
The location of the school might be, some millions of years ago, the river bed of the Yangtze, and cobble stones can be found everywhere. We built the wall with cobble stones and clay. The cobble stone is round and smooth, and clay sticky and soft. We first dug a trench of one foot deep, making it the foundation of the wall. Then we selected some proper-sized cobble stones, and put them one by one in a straight line, with clay in between. We made it one line after another, one layer above another. And finally, after 4 or 5 weeks’ time, a wall of two meters height was erected before us. We didn’t have the time to enjoy the fulfilment, for an overnight storm spoiled
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