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...twelve, Liang Heng found wall posters in a public square denouncing his father as a "foreigner's dog" and a "thoroughly capitalist newsman. "His father, Liang Shan, had become one of the scape goat intellectuals of the 1966 Cultural Revolution. In tears, Heng ran home to demand of his father "Is it true that you're a bloodsucker?" His father could only respond with "You should always believe the party and chairman Mao...I should examine myself thoroughly "Throughout Liang Heng's autobiography Son of the Revolution, his father's response to the repeated political catastrophes that afflict the Liang...
...Liang Shan stands as a salient example of the gap between the Chinese and the American man Like a Maoist Job, he suffers repeated indignities and hardships without losing faith. He is not a Western man with democratic ideals on whom communism has been forced Rather, he has a selfless devotion to the state personified by Mao. In this unusually impartial view of life in modern China, Liang Heng successfully expresses the strength of the communist faith as it conflicts with filial loyalty, romance love and urge for a better like. Unlike foreign visitors or disillusioned exiles, Liang Heng...
...Liang married an American, with whom he co-wrote his memoir, and he presently studies at Columbia University, but he clearly has not abandoned socialism His expressions of the fervor of past political movements can be excessive, but they reveal an undercurrent of loyalty. The influences shaping this loyalty started at birth. Heng's original given name (in China the family name comes first) was Dien-Jie, or "Good news from Dienbienphu", celebrating the Vietnamese victory over the French in 1954. The political naming of children is the first step in a long process of indoctrination centering on Mao which...
...Through Liang's eyes, Mao appears as a cult figure, as widely known as a Pope and with equal mystical power. Liang recalls feeling guilt for nursery school wrondoing until told, "Chairman Mao has forgiven you." Later he goes on a pilgrimage to the civil war mountain stronghold of Mao, and on another to Peking, where he glimpses the party leader, Far from presenting a cool, outsider's perspective, or reactionary scorn, Liang's descriptions of these journeys are filled with personal pleasure and excitement...
...member, said, adding, "These data must serve as the basis for more work." But student members are concerned about the future of the report's recommendations. Cepeda said she regretted there was no recommendation calling for a standing committee to implement the study's suggestions. Committee member Tsan-Yang Liang '80 said this week he "seriously doubts" that the report will have a large effect on administration policy...