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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
“What do you want me to do for the second step?”
“Make speeches at the political meetings. My
friends told me that you never make speeches at the
meetings. You know that it is a very important way
to show whether a person is progressive or not. If
you positively make speeches at the meetings, you’ll
be regarded as a progressive teacher.”
To win her heart, I was determined to continue to
cheat. If had cheated people into thinking that I had
said goodbye to my English books, then I could cheat
them by mouthing beautiful words. China was full of
hypocrisy, cheat, sin, persecution and violence… If
the people of the country are cheating, then why
can’t I? I decided to learn how to chant the praise of
the Party and Chairman Mao at meetings. But I really
didn’t know how to chant. I was slow of tongue and
clumsy of speech. Also I never read the newspaper
and never listened to speeches attentively when they
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