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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
“Of course, all leaders must be Communist Party
Members,” I cut him short.
“Don’t interrupt him. Go on speaking, please.
What about him?” Xiao Wang stopped me and urged
Bi Li. He laughed and then went on.
“He is over fifty. He seemed upright, honest and
decent. You know, I worked with some young
workers. When we rested, we would talk about
women. He would criticize us. He would say young
people should think more about political studies,
should make progress in politics, should take all their
possible free time to read Mao Zedong’s works,
shouldn’t always talk about women, shouldn’t think
about sex from time to time. We would say, ‘You
have had a wife already. You can play with her at
night. You don’t understand our single men’s agony.
As a Chinese proverb goes, a full man doesn’t know
the hunger a hungry man suffers.’
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