Word: revolutionize
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(3 of 29) he had been blinded by capitalist propaganda. After the meeting, the man in charge took me aside. ''You must make a determined effort to emulate Tao Feng and do your best to reform,'' he warned. ''I'm not aware of any wrongdoing on my part,'' I said...
My daughter Meiping was an attractive and intelligent young woman of 23. Growing up in Communist China, she had seen a society in which the children of the educated and affluent had enjoyed many advantages replaced, not by an egalitarian society but by a new system of discrimination against children...
(5 of 29) the 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...
(7 of 29) caught his leg just as he raised his foot to crush the next cup. He toppled, and we fell in a heap together. The boy regained his feet and kicked me right in my chest. I cried out in pain. The others gathered around us, shouting at...
I put the remaining wine cups in the box and went upstairs to inspect the damage. My heart sank. On the third floor landing were fragments of porcelain in colors of oxblood, imperial yellow, celadon green and blue-and-white. The third-floor rooms resembled a scene after an earthquake...