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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)

We intellectuals look noble and intelligent but

actually we are foolish and extremely selfish. No

wonder Chairman Mao defines us as Stinking Old

Ninths. We really stink. Chairman Mao once said

intellectual must integrate themselves with the

workers, and only by doing so can they reform

themselves thoroughly and become true proletarian

intellectuals. I must learn from you workers. To learn

from you I must first learn to speak like you. I love

you. I love the dirty languages you speak. I will be

the happiest man in the world if I can be with you. I

would like to say it out loud. I love you, I wish I

could speak like you…’”

I was extremely stupefied. Then I heard her say,

“This guy is from a very famous university. You’re

only from a third-rate university, but you are so

impolite to me. This guy is different. He respects and

loves me. He exalted me to the sky. He tried by all

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