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...bundle was deposited on the floor of my cell by a guard. After I had signed the receipt, I took the bundle to my bed and untied it. To my astonishment, I found the padded jacket, the fleece-lined winter coat, the two sweaters and the woolen underpants the Red Guards had allowed my daughter to keep after they looted our home in 1966. The padded jacket of navy blue woolen material lined with maroon silk was new in 1966, and it looked new now. With trembling hands, I picked up the white porcelain mug Meiping used...
...since the 1940s. At a key point in Chinese-U.S. trade talks, when China wanted to appear liberal-minded, Cheng seized the opportunity to apply for a passport -- and got it. She also received unofficial word that her daughter had been abducted and beaten to death by the Red Guards, who presumably were trying to force her to denounce her mother, and that the government had arrested the man considered guilty. Only after she left China did Cheng learn that the killer had been given...
...servants said. ''It's probably the Red Guards,'' said one of Meiping's friends, a young actor. ''What are the Red Guards?'' I asked. ''It's something new for the Cultural Revolution, encouraged by Jiang Qing,'' he said. ''Someone told me she actually organized them herself and then pretended it was the spontaneous idea of the students. And since she is the wife of Chairman Mao, the idea is catching on.'' Group after group of young students continued to march past our house. Meiping, who had gone outside to watch, told us that the students were shouting, ''Protect Chairman...
NIGHT OF THE RED GUARDS...
...destruction. Suddenly the doorbell began to ring incessantly. At the same time, there was a furious pounding of many fists on my front gate, accompanied by hysterical voices shouting slogans. The cacophony told me that the time of waiting was over and that I must face the Red Guards. ''Open the gate!'' someone shouted. ''Are you all dead? Why don't you open the gate?'' As my servant let the Guards in, I stood up to put my book on the shelf. A copy of the Constitution of the People's Republic caught my eye. Taking it in my hand...