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been forced to divorce me. She spoke about how she
was wronged, how she was cheated, how I beat her
and how I was not fond of the Communist Party of
China and Chairman Mao. I was a politically
backward young man. I knew nothing about politics.
I knew nothing about state affairs. What I knew were
two things: reading English and sex. She said I was a
lecher. She vividly described how I did it with her.
She said that I was fond of the new and tired of the
old. The students consoled her, each taking turns to
try and calm her down. However, the more they
consoled her, the more she complained about me.
On the next day, inside the classroom building, a
big character poster appeared with the title: Bombard
the contemporary Chen Shi Mei (Chen Shimei is a
character in the story of Chen Shimei’s beheading
case. In the Song Dynasty, Chen Shimei, was placed
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