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"Time is my greatest enemy," he complained. "Time is a vicious dictator, inflexible, inexorable--n ultimately always the victor."

" I was very fond of Lagneau's (Jean) phrase: 'I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.' "

Interesting...reminds me of Matt Haig's Midnight Library.."I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

" I didn't know whether I believed in an afterlife or not,but if those wuth nothing tovlive for can stop living, removing their tiresome selves fr the orbit of those who r sick of sight of them, then death is an excellent expedient- both for the person concerned, n for those who have to put up with them."

"Capitalist! " Wufu shouted. "Just wait till there's another Cultural Revolution! ".

Lol this trash pickers story so funny, loved it so far.

Taiwan under Nationalist rule.
Native taiwanese weren't happy with mainlanders, after 50 years under Japs colonisation had given them a sense of identity that distinguished them from new arrived mainlanders esp all high positions vacated by jap occupied by mainlanders.
Growing resentment erupted in riots on 28 Feb 1947 many killed on both sides.

Education emerged as both a means n an end during the cultural revolution decade, school system reform was one of the movements ultimate aims. But it was also launched from the schools w students n teachers mobilized as vanguards.
After the disastrous of the CR Mao sent the students back to schools said they were no match for the PLA :-D

"When we become a modernized, industrialized, and highly cultured great power fifteen years bence," he told the Eighth Congress, "we may possibly become too cocky and raise our tail sky high."
It was a strange mixture of overoptimistic prediction and awareness that success would h a dark underside to it.
Mao at 8th Congress in 1958 --GLF

The Mao of 1948 scorned such pessimism. "Thirty to fifty years" had been Mao's estimate to Xiao You, as they took a boat to Shanghai in 1921, of how long it would take for the CCP to win power. "One and a half years of fighting," he predicted in the summer of 1948..
and that turned out about right.

Mao n Zhu De met at the village of Water Hole, they merged their forces into a new army of the 10,000 men. This was the real birth of the Red Army.
The new China is underway..

Part I, Oran is closed it is not to keep out the enemy--in this case the plague but to quarantine the city— to cut it off from all possible help,
and to keep the plague in.

Interesting, the author was so interested in Mao's sex life. He kept mentioning it whenever he found fit.

Chapter 7 Education during cultural revolution.
5 black categories hei-wu-lei vs 5 red categories hung-wu-lei. Mao not only wanted to destroy the Chinese econonomy but also intended to do the same with its youth. So from 10 Jun to 31 July known as the fifty days of White Terror.

Chapter 7 education in cultural revolution.
5 black categories hei wu lei vs 5 red categories hung wu lei. Mao not only wanted to destroy the economic but he intended to do the same to the youth. I have no words to describe this man.

I'm surprised to reading this chap 3 written by -not a prof at all like other chapters- Thomas Robinson, Dir. CHN studies prog, American enterprise ins..
this chap is full of showing hate towards china, lots of biases. "...to show china that intimidation...if china PRETENDED to be a civilized state, itd have to behave like one.."
I mean if China with its 5000yrs of culture wasn a civilized state then what's USA?

the great leap forward disaster, no one seems have balls to say that this is Mao's doing, esp the coward Zhou Enlai aka the 'Willow branch guy ' during the seven thou cadres conference Jan-Feb'62. Deng, Liu, Chen Yun chose to play safe LOL . the conf left many issues unresolved.

So far so good. Keputusan untuk mempertahankan beberapa kata2 tetap dalam bhs aslinya sangat tepat, suka terjemahannya.
Cukup shock dgn apa yg dibaca sejauh ini,bocah2 malang..

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together. Could it have any other significance? But to hastily end it just like this was too soon. I realized that I had not lived properly. If I did have another lifetime, I would definitely live it differently, but this would require a miracle.

I didn’t believe in miracles, just like I didn’t believe in fate, but when one is desperate, isn’t a miracle?