Allan

“At school, the teachers did no teaching, they did not dare. The old text books all had been condemned as bourgeois poison. But nobody was brave enough to write new ones. So we just sat in classes, and recited Mao’s articles. We sang songs of Mao’s quotations, or gathered to dance loyalty dances, gyrating, and waving our little red books. Making loyalty dances compulsory, was one of the major orders issued by the Revolutionary Committees throughout China. This absurd twisting was mandatory everywhere, in schools, and factories, on the streets, on railway platforms, in shops, even in hospitals for patients who could still move ..”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China