Word: wu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wu Hung spent a year in his college's detention center before he was sent to a prison camp. "It was like they turned Adams House into a jail. They put me in a dark room, asked me to write down my faults, my crime," he says...
...Wu Hung does not see his experience as negative. He calls the Cultural Revolution the most significant time of his life. "Because both professors and students were prisoners, there were no boundaries. I stopped seeing my professors as big names, they became just human beings," says Wu Hung...
...Before the Cultural Revolution, I felt very insecure. Afterwards I was confident. Before I was alienated by my orientation to Western culture. I was a very marginal person in Chinese society. My insecurity was rooted in feeling myself to be a different person from those around me," Wu Hung says. "But after the camp I felt a very deep connection with people, not just with books and academics...
...Wu Hung also turned to traditional Chinese philosophy in his search for some stability in a "country that was like a madhouse." He studied Taoism, which holds as its central principle that power lies in the mind, in the self, and not in action. "I don't think I achieved the inner peace of the Taoists, but I tried," remembers Wu Hung...
While in the labor camp, Wu Hung wrote four books about his experiences, but then destroyed them, for fear of disastrous consequences if they were discovered by officials...