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...very pleased to be writing about brothers. I adore my brother. But he's just a year and 10 days older than me, so we had plenty of rumbles early on. It is a funny mixture, it is a love-hate thing between brothers...
...seem to be getting more and more drawn to history and geopolitics as you get older...
...camps for having taken up the Chairman's own invitation to offer frank and constructive criticism of the Communist Party.) In the office, Tao Feng was always full of self-assurance. Now he looked nervous and thoroughly beaten. He had lost a great deal of weight and seemed years older than only a few months ago. The young people behind me snickered. A man pushed a chair forward and told Tao Feng to stand on it. When he did and stood there in a posture of subservience in his tall paper hat, the snickers became uncontrolled laughter. Someone...
Late that night, a voice at the door said, ''Come over!'' It was one of the older guards, who had always been humane. ''Why aren't you eating your meals?'' she asked me. ''I don't know how to eat without using my hands,'' I said. ''Think hard. There is a way. You have a spoon.'' The next morning, when the guard called the prisoners to get up, I felt something sticky and wet on my hands. Turning to the quilt, I saw stains of blood mixed with pus. The handcuffs had already broken my skin and were cutting into...
...shelf. A copy of the Constitution of the People's Republic caught my eye. Taking it in my hand, I went downstairs. The Red Guards were 30 or 40 high school students, aged between 15 and 20, led by two men and one woman who were much older -- the ''teachers'' who generally accompanied the Red Guards when they looted private homes. As they crowded into the hall, a gangling youth with angry eyes stepped forward and said to me, ''We are the Red Guards. We have come to take revolutionary action against you!'' Though I knew it was futile...